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To: melstew
Perhaps I should just go read your book, but one more question.

I do have concerns about AGW

What specific concerns?

Do you feel that AGW can, in any way, lead to global climate disruption and negatively affect our climate, ie. more severe, non-typical weather per region?

39 posted on 10/13/2010 5:27:16 PM PDT by PROCON (20 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
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To: PROCON

The concern stems from the elegant simplicity of the AGW theory. We know that GHGs trap heat, we know that CO2 is a powerful GHG, we know that trophosperic CO2 is up by 40%since the industrial revolution, and there is strong evidence of a decadal scale rise in temperature since the 1870s. Taken in a vacuum, that is awful compelling. But, of course, that vacuum is a myth. To my list of unknowns above, add water vapor, urban heat island, solar cycles, limits (and worse) with climate models, and the possible benefits of some warming.


42 posted on 10/13/2010 5:41:41 PM PDT by melstew
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