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The northern hemisphere must be serving as a heat sink for the southern
hemisphere.

Have you been reading about the record cold temps in Tasmania, and the first
snow in Buenos Aires since 1918?

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:20:54 -0000,
penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of
rec.boats:

On Aug 10, 5:07 pm, "JimH" ask wrote:
wrote in message

oups.com...

On Aug 9, 10:49 pm, "JimH" ask wrote:
How can you argue against global warming when temperatures and
rainfalls
over half of the US and in the UK are reaching or surpassing record
highs?

I am not convinced about the human intervention factor but I have to
admit that something is indeed happening
with our climate.

Cyclical? Perhaps.

We need more research.- Hide quoted text -

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I think a lot of the focus is starting to converge on the figures
about temp and climate etc, that we are being fed. It is turning out
that much of it is false, maybe even intenionally manipulated. There
is a huge amount of money to be made, a lot of grants to be awarded.
All gone if this science is allowed to be challenged.

All I know is what I see. It has been hot and just recently.....wet.

Global warming? Yes. Man made? Not enough proof.

One has to admit that the carbon footprint of China over recent years is
indeed disturbing and has to have an impact on the weather.- Hide quoted
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So your suggesting you "feel" the what point five degrees your weather
may have risen in the last what, 50 years?? I grew up here where I am
now, and personally I can't notice the extra half degree?

And I grew up where I am living... and so did my Dad and his
parents.... and parents.... and parents... way back.

All of the older relatives I have known remarked about how, "it didn't
get as cold as it used to." Their descriptions of how high the snow
got every winter was on the order of 2.5 - 4 feet, based on landmarks
that they remembered covered.... and I have seen the landmarks myself.

My son is 22 and, in his life, has seen enough snow to go sledding
only one year. He has never seen the pipes freeze. He has never seen
an ice storm that makes it nearly impossible to walk or open the car
door. He has never seen minus temperatures. He has never seen the
electricity go off for a week while they put up new lines.

Fifty years ago, all of my winters included some, if not most, of the
above.

If you get past the Al Gore/Jerry Springer version of the theory of
global warming, you will find that it speaks in terms of averages and
expects hotter highs in some places and colder lows in others. It is
this unpredictable CLIMATE CHANGE that is, in part, worrisome.

This is not the time to talk to me about this, anyway..... been
working on the boat today.... making up some cables and moving a
battery..... heat index of 117F.

What am I supposed to believe when I read:
"At 237 PM this afternoon... the temperature at the Raleigh-Durham
Intl Airport reached 104 degrees. This breaks the old record of 99
set in 2001.
101 degrees sets a record maximum at Danville Virginia for todays
date... breaking the old record of 99 in 1987.
99 degrees sets a record maximum at Roanoke Virginia for todays
date... breaking the old record of 97 in 1977.
92 degrees ties the record maximum at Blacksburg Virginia for todays
date set in 1983
a record high temperature of 98 degrees was set at Wilmington today.
This breaks the old record of 97 set in 1979.
A record high temperature of 105 degrees was set at Florence today.
This breaks the old record of 98 set in 1963."

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