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To: longnshort who wrote (441722)	12/21/2008 6:00:41 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575535

First of all, I have said repeatedly, even if global warming is not for real, what is wrong with cleaning up our air? According to the National Climatic Data Center, 2008 will be America's coldest year since 1997, thanks to La Nina and precipitation in the central and eastern states. Solar quietude also may underlie global cooling. This year's sunspots and solar radiation approach the minimum in the sun's cycle, corresponding with lower Earth temperatures. This echoes Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Dr. Sallie Baliunas' belief that solar variability, much more than CO2, sways global temperatures. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service reports that last summer was Anchorage's third coldest on record. "Not since 1980 has there been a summer less reflective of global warming," Craig Medred wrote in the Anchorage Daily News. Consequently, Alaska's glaciers are thickening in the middle. "It's been a long time on most glaciers where they've actually had positive mass balance," U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia told Mr. Medred Oct. 13. Similarly, the National Snow and Ice Data Center found that Arctic sea ice expanded 13.2 percent this year, or a Texas-sized 270,000 square miles. This guy needs to be honest........this is the first mass balancing of Alaska's glaciers in ten years or more. And this year the phenomenon is due to La Niña. Across the equator, Brazil endured an especially cold September. Snow graced its southern provinces that month. Brazil is a big country........the equator is near its northern border. Its not unusual for snow to occur in its southern provinces during the winter. "Global Warming is over, and Global Warming Theory has failed. There is no evidence that CO2 drives world temperatures or any consequent climate change," Imperial College London astrophysicist and long-range forecaster Piers Corbyn wrote British members of Parliament on Oct. 28. "According to official data in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been colder than that year, yet CO2 has been rising rapidly." That evening, as the House of Commons debated legislation on so-called "global warming," October snow fell in London for the first time since 1922. I hope its true but again, I see no reason even if it is true why we should not try to reduce the number of pollutants that enter the earth's air. "As a scientist and life-long liberal Democrat, I find the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear-mongering clap-trap about human-caused global warming to be a disservice to science," Mr. Hertzberg wrote in Sept. 26's USA Today. "From the El Nino year of 1998 until Jan., 2007, the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere near its surface decreased some 0.25 C (0.45 F). From Jan., 2007 until the spring of 2008, it dropped a whopping 0.75 C (1.35 F)." And during this period.....didn't I complain frequently that it was cooler than normal in Seattle?