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To: cogitator

Well, interesting.

But, for most folks, we won't care.


Unless global warming actually results in a noticeable change in the weather, which really hasn't happened, people won't get worked up about it.


10 posted on 08/12/2005 8:28:53 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas
Unless global warming actually results in a noticeable change in the weather, which really hasn't happened

A classic statement is this: "Climate = average weather".

It takes a significant shift to change a long-term average, just as a baseball player has to go on an amazing hitting streak in August to raise his batting average significantly if he was hitting .200 from April through July. One of the changes in "average weather" due to warming would be earlier spring thaws and later winter freezes for water bodies in temperate zones (like the United States).

Such trends have been conclusively observed.

15 posted on 08/12/2005 8:35:30 AM PDT by cogitator
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