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- From: rovero@skye.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: No consensus on Global Warming (was Flash! Enviro...)
- Keywords: global warming
- Message-ID: <7222@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:08:21 GMT
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- Organization: Naval Postgraduate School,Monterey CA
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- In article <1992Dec21.205006.17535@pmafire.inel.gov> cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook) writes:
- > From what I've read, the debate centers around the following
- >questions (primarily):
- >
- >- Is the observed trend actually an emerging long-term trend? Or, is
- > it a temporary blip?
- >
- >- Given the current recent trend, what will the magnitude be of any
- > future warming?
- >
- >- What will be the effects (if any) be on climate and weather?
- >
- >- Is the observed trend caused by man?
- >
-
- Yup. Agreed. Valid questions all. The last one is VERY important, and
- has NOT been answered (with any statistical validity) to date.
-
- There's not much agreement on the first point either. The existing
- instrument record is at most a few hundred years; most non-instrument
- measures (tree rings, isotope ratios, etc) don't give us the temporal,
- spatial, or climate property (temp, rainfall, etc) resolution that
- we'd really like.
-
- GLOBAL warming is NOT a fact. It is a hypothesis, yet to be proven.
-
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