Re: OT - 2005 Will Probably be Warmest on Record

On 16 Nov 2005 10:09:31 -0800, dagmargoodboat@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Jim Thompson wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:05:08 GMT, Tom MacIntyre
>> <tom__macintyre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >On 15 Nov 2005 07:12:13 -0800, Winfield Hill
>> ><Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >>"New international climate data show that 2005 is on track to be
>> >>the hottest year on record, continuing a 25-year trend of rising
>> >>global temperatures."
>> >>
>> >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202498.html
>> >>
>> >>"Late last month, a team of University of Colorado and NASA
>> >>scientists announced that the Arctic sea ice cap shrank this
>> >>summer to 200 million square miles, 500,000 square miles less
>> >>than its average area between 1979 and 2000."
>> >>
>> >>That fits right in with the eye-opening composite photos in this
>> >>morning's paper of today's Arctic ice cover compared with 1979.
>> >
>> >Not a huge % change, though.
>> >
>> >Tom
>>
>> Didn't you know that blue-nosed tree-hugging leftist weenies can
>> measure with phenomenal accuracy ?:-)
>>
>> That's pretty damn good isn't it... 0.25%... wowee!
>
>
>FWIW:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101202498.html
>"Correction to This Article
>An Oct. 13 article incorrectly reported the size of the Arctic ice
>*** this summer. The Arctic ice *** shrank to 2 million square
>miles, or 500,000 square miles less than its average area between 1979
>and 2000."
>
>OTOH, that the reporters missed such an error erodes one's confidence
>in their appreciation of their subject.
>
> A pal's pal--who works in a suitable place I shan't mention on *the*
>global climate model--opines the Earth is warming, but that man has no
>obvious part in it.
>
> That's no reason to waste of course. Using less, polluting less,
>burning clean stuff--these all make good sense on their own merits.
>Thrift is its own reward.
>
> Cheers,
> James Arthur

I agree completely... waste not, want not. But humans and their toys
are indeed an inconsequential part of this warming equation. If we
start tampering, as the blue-nosed tree-hugging leftist weenie
socialists want to do, we're liable to do irreparable damage. We
should ride out the natural weather cycle and learn to live with it.

...Jim Thompson
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