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Another Bushie bętise, helping heating the planet. France has been heating more than the world average. Earl **** Hot Spot in 2003? The Earth, U.N. Says By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 17, 2003 ENEVA, Dec. 16 (AP) ‹ The year 2003, marked by a sweltering summer and drought across large swaths of the planet, was the third hottest in nearly 150 years, the United Nations weather agency said Tuesday. The World Meteorological Organization estimated the average surface temperature for the year to be 0.81 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the normal 25.2 degrees ‹ a number skewed toward the low side because it includes polar regions. The agency said warmer weather could not be attributed to any single cause but was part of a trend that global warming was likely to prolong. The agency, which collects data worldwide, said the three hottest years since accurate records began to be kept in 1861 had all been in the last six years. The hottest was 1998, when the average temperature was up 0.99 degrees. "The rhythm of temperature increases is accelerating," said the agency's deputy secretary general, Michel Jarraud. |
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Earl Evleth staggered to the nearest keyboard and
wrote: Another Bushie bętise, helping heating the planet. France has been heating more than the world average. Has France really been heating more than the world average? You had a hot summer in 2003 but that doesn't make a trend. Usually climate change (whether natural or human-caused) is strongest in polar and sub-arctic regions, because of ice-albedo feedback. -- hambu n hambu hodo |
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France has been heating more than the world average.
Has France really been heating more than the world average? You had a hot summer in 2003 but that doesn't make a trend. You didn't actually read the snippet that Earl posted, did you? -- Tim. If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. |
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Following up to Earl Evleth
Curiously some predictions had been for a temperature drop in northern Europe. That projection was made on the basis of an expected change in the Gulf stream and the "conveyor belt" distribution world wide. I was listening to a programme the other day where they said the failure of The Gulf Stream/N Atlantic drift, although possible, was long odds. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso Walking-food-photos, Wasdale, Thames, London etc "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site and same for Spain at "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Earl Evleth wrote: The last point is that politically there is no debate in Europe, especially in France, that global warming is occurring. So the attitudes are different and touring Americans might like to know that many issues do not enter on the political agendas in Europe that do in the US. Earl Lets see, Kyoto was drafted in '99 and today its almost '04... but no, there's no political debate. Good grief, who do you think is buying this statement of yours ? Further, it is not that temperatures are getting warmer, it is why! jay Thu, Dec 18, 2003 -- Legend insists that as he finished his abject... Galileo muttered under his breath: "Nevertheless, it does move." |
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Following up to Earl Evleth
The last point is that politically there is no debate in Europe, especially in France, that global warming is occurring. So the attitudes are different and touring Americans might like to know that many issues do not enter on the political agendas in Europe that do in the US. Eh? A "touring american" is likely to bump into a european environmentalist who will want to discuss Kyoto with him. Is it the US or Europe that has "green" parties? Surely if anyone is ignoring global warming its the US? -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso Walking-food-photos, Wasdale, Thames, London etc "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site and same for Spain at "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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On 18/12/03 10:18, in article ,
"Reid" wrote: I was listening to a programme the other day where they said the failure of The Gulf Stream/N Atlantic drift, although possible, was long odds. I hope so. There is a lot of "academic" information on the web, like http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html, good graphics, etc. It is often not organized totally into a coherent analysis only a good book or several will do that. But also in this whole area thee are some misleading "think tanks" which not academic at all, some connected with special interests. I only got the impression that the Gulf stream shift was one of the possible scenarios, not a long odds one. I will do some looking. So far nothing is happening along those lines. That Europe could get colder is the preferred scenario for the man who has a fur store in our neighborhood, Monsieur Lagache. In fact when the weather turns cold I usually drop by to accuse him of being a "profiteur" of such climatic events. Perhaps even one of "les responsables" ("a qui profite le crime?"). Earl |
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