Larry wrote in
:

In the Heartland of America, Beaver City has shown a 70 year history
of Global COOLING by .31C :
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO...cn/stationofth
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week .jsp

Oops....Where's Algore when you want him??

Larry

I just read "State of Fear" by Michael Chrichton. It's a fiction book
backed up by a ton of science. What was the last fiction book that you
read that had 30 pages of bibliography?

One of the many amazing facts that was discussed in the book was that
urban warming (heating due to heating due to all of the roads,
buildings, etc) plays a large part in the global warming debate. As
cities grow, the effect becomes larger and larger. A large majority of
the reporting weather stations around the country/world are in urban
areas.

You need to compensate for this urban warming factor to come up with a
plot of average temperature by year. I never realized that anything
other than the actual recorded temperatures was used in this
calculation, but it is. There's a huge debate on how to calculate this
factor and how large it is. As a result the data which is being used
isn't pure, it's adjusted.

When you look at plots of non-urban areas, you actually see global
cooling, but when you include all of the urban areas, you see global
warming.

This discussion really doesn't belong in this news group and it was
probably a mistake to reply. But I'd suggest reading Crichton's "State
of Fear." It was a good read, regardless of which side of the debate
you come down on. I had always assumed that global warming was a fact,
but this book made me rethink my position.

-- Geoff