On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:52:29 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:


"John H." wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:58:13 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

According to that group of left wing nut jobs, the National Aeronautic
and Space Administration, the ice at the north pole (and the rest of
the arctic) is melting at a rate that could
leave the north end of the globe ice free by 2012.

Santa will either have to move to the south pole, (where there is
still plenty of ice), or take up boating. Maybe he'll participate in
rec.boats, and become another one of the posters whose true identities
are a mystery. :-)

From the news last week, there's not only plenty of ice at the south pole,
but it's accumulating by leaps and bounds!

Makes one wonder if there's not a little hype going around somewhere.

"Unconventional Wisdom

A member of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
says he and many other scientists do not see global warming as a
developing
catastrophe and there is no smoking gun proving that human activity is to
blame for the warming that does occur.

John Christy is the director of the Earth System Science Center at the
University of Alabama at Huntsville. He and thousands of others on the
U.N.
panel share half the Nobel Prize also awarded to Al Gore. But he says he
cringes when he hears 100-year weather forecasts when it is incredibly
difficult to accurately predict the weather five days from now.

He writes in The Wall Street Journal, "Mother Nature simply operates at a
level of complexity that is, at this point, beyond the mastery of mere
mortals (such as scientists) and the tools available to us."

He points out that a recent CNN report on climate change made much of the
shrinking Arctic sea ice cover, but did not mention that winter sea ice
around Antarctica set a record maximum last month."

From: http://tinyurl.com/39xr7v
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John H
I wonder if Mr/Mrs Clause will move their headquarters. :)


That's what I'd do!
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John H