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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  4/21/2007 07:30 PM,VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
> The only argument I've heard by scientists against
> global warming boils down to this, I paraphrase; "The
> climate has always fluctuated so this is just another
> fluctuation"
> There is of course a chance that this could be a
> fluctuation, but that argument seems to ignore the
> fact the same data and information that tells us about
> climatic fluctuations in the past, tells us that this
> current trend does not fit that pattern.

What data? If we had some good records since the last ice age we 
might have a handle on what's happening. I just read something on the 
grape growing in Britain worrying the French, that was before the 
Little Ice Age ( Little Ice Age lasted from roughly the fourteenth 
through the nineteenth centuries).

Lynda talked of 150 years of records and the ice ended 8k-10k years 
or so back. That's not a lot of data.
We just don't know enough yet.
I'm really tired of saying "we just don't know enough yet"....



Rob
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