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To: tonto who wrote (6248)	11/26/2008 8:56:49 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

Global warming is calculated from all the average temperatures across the globe. The article I posted was a data point around ocean PH balances. The way to look at it is this. The fact is that CO2 levels are rising. Scientists have measured that the current level is 385 ppm and rising. The theory is that CO2 increases are causing increased levels of acidity in oceans, increasing global temperatures, increasing the size of the ozone layer, and increasing the volatility of weather patterns. Each of these impacts have follow-on impacts such as accelerating the melt of the ice caps during the summer months, increasing the frequency and size of damaging hurricanes, which displace people and cost money, increasing the extinction rate of fauna, and contributing to rising oceans. Based on many different methods, scientists have all contributed to a growing body of evidence that all of the steps in the causal chain are linked with a high degree of probability. Could they be wrong? Yes. There's a chance, however small, that they could be wrong. What does the data tell us? The probability is high that a correlation exists. Those are the facts and the theories with the conclusions based on the data. You don't have to believe it, just as you don't have to believe that high bad cholesterol and high inflammation leads to a higher probability of heart disease. But you don't take precautions at your own peril.