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In a message dated 5/2/2008 2:01:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, iluvdanc@rochester.rr.com writes:

> The one thing I do know about global warming is that it does not mean just an increase in temperature, but the disruption of "normalcy"-- whether it be rainfall patterns, seasons, wind, temperature, etc. 


What is normal?  

As it was 400 years when they had a cooling such that the River Tams froze over every year and merchants set up shops on the river? This period lasted two hundred +/- years. Grapes wasn't a viable crop which it was 1,000 years before that and when the Romans ruled England.  

Was the ice age 25,000 years ago normal, when ice covered a large portion of North America? 

Or millions of years ago when earth temps were much higher than today? When vegetation grew rampant which made today's coal fields?   

What may seem normal to us yesterday is but a micro flash of time in the history of earth. 

The history channel has had some very enlightening programs on this subject. 

Jerry


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