[aruanan]

With 2002 on track to be the second-warmest year on record, scientists said Monday they are confident that human activity, rather than a natural variation in Earth's climate, is responsible for the unprecedented warming trend of the past two decades.

Yeah, unprecedented. Of the last two decades. And yet we're still several degrees C under the 10,000 year average, still a couple degrees C under the temp of the Medieval Climate Optimum that certainly wasn't caused by human activity.

[GOP_1900AD]

Here in near coastal N. Calif we are still waiting for a truly warm summer or a reasonably warm fall, like the ones we last experienced during the mid to late 1980s. Warming? Hah!