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To: koan who wrote (763838)

1/14/2014 12:15:09 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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Dude.. there can't be warming; lots of people seeing snow.

Category 4 Ian Pounds Tonga; 91W Kills 20 in Philippines; First Tornadoes of 2014

By: Dr. Jeff Masters, 2:55 AM GMT on January 13, 2014

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The year 2014 has just begun, but the tropical cyclone seasons in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have already claimed victims. Summer is in full bloom in the Southern Hemisphere, where two Category 4 storms formed last week: Tropical Cyclone Colin, which reached sustained winds of 135 mph midway between Madagascar and Australia on January 11, and Tropical Cyclone Ian, which intensified into a powerful Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds before roaring through the South Pacific islands of Tonga over the weekend. At least one death is being blamed on the storm in the northern Ha'apai Islands of Tonga, home to 8,000 people, and 70% of the buildings were damaged or destroyed, according to the Australia Network News. Tonga is an archipelago of 176 islands, with 100,000 people living on the 36 most populated islands. The economy relies on fish exports, tourism, and money from Tongans living overseas. About 40% of the population lives in poverty.

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To: koan who wrote (763838)	1/14/2014 8:41:37 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

Hi koan; Re: "Australia is really on fire and shows just how fast this global warming is coming down on us."; No, the hot weather in Australia is just "weather". The cold weather in the US is just "weather". They're not "climate". The temp rise in climate these past 30 years is around 1 degree C. You can't even detect that small a temperature difference except with a thermometer. The temperature changes by a lot more than that every day in the typical place in a desert region like the hot spots in Australia. If they have a problem with the tennis matches, schedule them in the morning, LOL. Melbourne's high may be 106F tomorrow but their low is 75F. Friday's low is 61: weather.com By bringing this up as an argument you're stating that you don't understand the issues. We're arguing about very tiny changes in temperature that wouldn't even be known to exist except for huge amounts of data taken by thousands of temperature stations every few hours for dozens of years. Australia's contribution to the amount of global warming is close to zero, they're only about -- Carl