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To: RetiredNow who wrote (10062)	6/27/2009 2:14:49 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

The last 8 years are still at record highs when compared to temperatures over the last 150 years. You just don't get it.. 150 years is a DROP IN THE BUCKET OF PALEOCLIMATIC TIME!!! atmo.arizona.edu You CANNOT just look at the past 150 years and rely upon that short-term data when making these kinds of decisions. Especially when we saw temperatures that were even HIGHER a mere 1000 years ago when mankind was not responsible for spewing ANY CO2 into the atmosphere (minus the wood they used for cooking and heating). Until you can explain why temperatures were that high before the industrial age even began, then all of your conclusions are suspect. And btw.. when you have excessive pendulum swings or oscillations, it natural at the peak of that swing for there to be hesitation and stability prior to any reversal of the trend. It's NOT normal for temperatures to just level off when the causative factors (according to your theory, CO2) are continuing to rise.. They should more inexorably higher until CO2 levels off or decreases. Isn't that part and parcel of any "feedback loop"? Momentum keeps the temperature rising long after CO2 stabilizes? So explain why temps are leveling off and in some places actually diminishing?? Hawk