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No Atlantic hurricanes either, it's not at all like the doom and gloom Al predicted. Time to retweak their computer models so they spit out the stat sets that fit their agenda.
Seriously? Do either of you think that you can judge weather patterns by a single year in a single country????
Go back to school and take a basic earth science class a geography class and a statistics class while you're at it.
One year of anything anywhere is most likely an anomaly not part of a bigger pattern. Picking the weather pattern for one year in one country and trying to claim it means anything is just plain stupid.
Seriously? Do either of you think that you can judge weather patterns by a single year?
Go back to school and take a basic earth science class and a statistics class while you're at it.
I tend to agree. Way back when we certainly learned about 'the greenhouse effect', and even did a jolly little experiment. It is a concept that has been around since the late 1800s (a British scientist predicted the warming of the Earth back in the 1890s due to carbon build-up, but thought it would not be noticeable for another 200 years; of course, he could not imagine the rise of the automobile, etc).
It seems to me that the problem is thus: 1) Al Gore came out with that movie and went on a lecture tour; 2) Rush Limbaugh (who is not fond of Mr. Gore) went on a long spree of blasting Mr. Gore and claiming that the 'global warming' crowd were liberals intent on taking over the world, or whatever. Minions followed Mr. Limbaugh's lead, and the simple concept of the 'greenhouse effect' went out the window.
I note that some posters are fond of pointing out a magazine of the mid 1970s (I think Time or Newsweek) that proclaimed the advent of a new 'ice age'. What said posters neglect to think of is this: the scientific community was quick to call the article nonsense, and the reason the magazine's article was 'news' was because it bucked the scientific communities conclusions that an accelerated 'greenhouse effect' was going to happen (it is the 'greenhouse effect' that keeps the globe warm, but you don't want too much). The article was quickly forgotten, save for a few who try to keep it alive.
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