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To: Bill who wrote (700976)	9/9/2005 2:32:02 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Your 'facts' are quite in dispute. (You seem to be making the exact same mistake you accuse the proponents of the theory of global warming of making: reading far too much into fragmentary data.) Re: "The Antarctic ice sheets are growing." Recent reports indicate ice sheets are growing in the EAST of Antarctica --- as a result of rising temperatures. (Previously it was too cold for much snow to fall). While they continue to shrink at accelerating rates elsewhere around the world (Alaska, Greenland, Africa, Canada, Siberia, Norway, etc.) "The ozone layer has stopped shrinking." This appears to be well-agreed with. The global bans on chloroflurocarbons (which destroy ozone) are credited. Although the holes in the ozone layer appear to have mostly stopped GROWING --- (and therefore: higher levels of solar radiation at ground levels, and higher incidences of skin cancer) --- they are predicted to remain with us for decades more to come. If we didn't permit so many LOOPHOLES in the ban (agricultural fumigants, for example) then perhaps progress at restoring the protective ozone layer would be faster. "The globe is cooler now than it was in 1998.' Evidence is FAR TOO FRAGMENTARY (and in dispute) to make any such claim yet. We really need a 50 year or longer baseline to have any confidence at all in the data... that recent results are not just normal, and expected, variability in the system.