Re: Global Warming (yet again) (was: Vista


Judson McClendon <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"tlmfru" <lacey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Making much of record low temperatures in one tiny locality doesn't get
one
very far. The earth is far from uniform at that level of consideration
so
you'd logically expect all sorts of variation. The AVERAGE temperature
of
the whole earth's surface is what's important.

However, checking 1,000 year old tree rings or ice cores from tiny
localities apparently is a valid technique for proving global warming. ;-)


They are, so long as they're correlated with all the other such records.
Nobody is so silly as to say that the old oak at the corner of 11th &
Phblatt represents the whole world.

PL


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