Re: Breaking News: World is 10 deg chillier

From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 11:31:24 MST


At 10:03 AM 1/24/2001 -0500, Ross Finlayson wrote:

>If the world's temperature was different compared to millions of years ago,
>and now it is much warmer in fifty years, which is less than 1/100 of 1
>percent of the time, is that not a cause for concern?

No, it is not necessarily a cause for concern because the temperature
variation over the last hundred years is well within the envelope of known
natural temperature variation. There is a good argument that human
contributions to climate change may not even be above the noise floor.

-James Rogers
  jamesr@best.com



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