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- From: 471-1@air.atmo.arizona.edu (E. Shane Jimerfield)
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- Subject: Re: Bad science
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.000451.1199@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:04:51 GMT
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- In article <dhalliwe.725061253@muskwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell) writes:
- >mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
- >
- >>In <1992Dec18.172102.18456@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>What happened to the claim that the Earth has already warmed up several
- >>degrees. Supposedly due to greenhouse build up over the last 100 years.
- >
- > Who's claim that the earth has warmed up several degrees? The
- >instrumental record shows warming of about 1C over the last one
- >hundred years. However, this warming has not been a simple linear
- >one: there was warming until the 1930s, then cooling until 1970 or so,
- >followed by further warming. The overall increase of 1C is consistent
- >with the increase in CO2, but could also be due to a number of other
- >factors, so very few people actually state that the cause of the
- >warming is CO2.
- >
- > Of course, I have to add the usual caveat that these are the *global*
- >trends that I am talking about, with significant local variations on
- >the theme to be expected.
- >
- Also records show that the warming has been primarily night time
- temperatures. What the implications of this are I am not sure.
-
- --
- Take 'er easy.... Shane
- .watch out for the lightning (a large-scale high-tension natural electric
- discharge in the atmosphere)......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ..informal... a sudden usually improbable stroke of fortune.......
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