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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (71313)	8/5/2016 9:15:08 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Well... The deniers do like to cherry pick!

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (71313)	8/5/2016 11:57:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Global Alarmists often use "OMG it's the highest ever recorded temperature" in some place as an argument that they are correct, when, as you point out, it's just weather. < Get real! NZ hardly qualifies as a zit on the face of the earth. You can't use the weather in NZ resort as a proxy for the world.> Since the Little Ice Age ended only towards the end of the 19th century and melting of glaciers has gone on since, it's must more likely that there would be highest ever recorded temperatures than there would be lowest ever recorded temperatures. So in fact, the extreme cold in south NZ is a better climate marker than the highest-ever temperatures. As you probably know, Earth is not made up of an average temperature, any more than humans are made up of the "average" human. Temperatures vary with ice ages happening at polar latitudes, and not in Nigeria. Southern NZ is in a polar region. So while it might freeze up and be uninhabitable, Africa and India will still be hunky dory. Sweden is in a similarly dodgy location and will have kilometres of ice over it when reglaciation is full blown. Averaging temperatures across the world might suggest that the average has not moved much, but people live locally rather than averagely, so it is very real to be concerned about one's own habitat. Mqurice