Global Cooling/Global Warming

mark@unicorn.com
Tue, 9 Dec 1997 09:30:51 -0800 (PST)

Wayne Hayes [wayne@cs.toronto.edu] wrote:
>It certainly does not! 0.04 degrees "per decade" measured over a lousy
>2 decades??? That's statistical fluctuation if I ever saw it. It is
>*very* good that we are starting to measure temperature fluctuations
>rather than use computer-aided guessing, but at this point there is
>nowhere *near* enough evidence to make any sort of long-term predictions
>whatsoever.

Uh, the global warming proponents are apparently claiming a 0.05
degree "per decade" rise as grounds for massive restrictions on
personal freedom. They do have data from further back in time, but
there are good reasons to consider the data unreliable. Their
predictions certainly don't match the measurements over a lousy
two decades.

Or is this what you mean? That neither side has a good case?

Mark