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To: longnshort who wrote (329150)	3/16/2007 11:30:16 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578501

Northern winter the hottest on record Rachel Kleinman March 17, 2007 THE world has just experienced its warmest December to February period on record, the US Government says. Combined global land and ocean surface temperatures over the northern hemisphere's winter were the highest since records began in 1880, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That included the hottest January on record. The weather agency did not release the actual temperature recorded over the three months but said it was 0.72 degrees above the 20th century average. Jay Lawrimore, from the administration's National Climatic Data Centre, said the deviation from the average was more important than the actual temperature. "Contributing factors were the long-term trend towards warmer temperatures, as well as a moderate El Nino in the Pacific," Mr Lawrimore said. He stopped short of blaming this year's record temperature on greenhouse-gas emissions but admitted the long-term warming trend was due "in part" to rises in emissions. The second warmest winter was in 2004 and the third warmest in 1998, Mr Lawrimore said. And each of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1995. Global land temperature during the northern hemisphere winter was also the warmest on record, while the ocean surface temperature tied for second warmest after the winter of 1997-98. The agency reported that during the past century global surface temperatures had increased by nearly 0.06 degrees each decade. That rate has increased since 1976, rising by 0.18 degrees each decade. With REUTERS noaa.gov theage.com.au

To: longnshort who wrote (329150)	3/16/2007 12:04:11 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1578501

"When the Clinton administration in 1993, in a then-unprecedented decision, gave all 93 U.S. attorneys 10 days to leave their offices" Talk about spin. The only thing which might have been unprecedented was the 10 days. It, in fact, is very common to fire all of them when a new president takes office. Which is why the USA's are appointed for 4 years, a period of time which should be familiar. "ABC's 'World News Tonight' and the 'CBS Evening News' didn't utter a syllable about it," " Which probably means NBC and PBS did. Else they would have been mentioned also.