Martin Baxter wrote:
Gilligan wrote:

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....t193etet.html

Global warming:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/cp_n110641A.xml.html



Well, as I implied earlier, and Dave pooh poohed, most Global Warming
models predict more violent storms, wider extremes of temperature,
droughts, floods, (not in the same place at the same time ;-o ).
Certainly the most recent average surface temperatures measured from
space indicate that the planet is warming, there are two big questions:
Is the rise significant enough and likely to increase for a long enough
period of time to constitute "Global warming", and, is there anything
practical we can do about it?

There are few who doubt that the answer to first is yes. It's the latter
question that opens the big can of worms, i.e., "Did we cause it, and if
so can we stop it?"

From what I've read, the models predict that the extremes will get
worse the farther you get from the equator.

And there does seem to be a pretty strong correlation between the rise
in greenhouse gases and the rise in temperature. Of course, that's all
there is between smoking and lung cancer: a pretty strong
correlation...

Do you smoke, Gilligan?