can influence peoples thinking about global warming.



so, lets see, 1997 was the warmest in a century? Then that means it was warmer just over a century ago, and it has been cooler ever since then. (it has been cooler for 100 years in a row!)



Yep, that's certainly alarming! And 100 years of cooler weather clearly shows a warming trend!



And a little over one degree increase in the nest 100 years? also very alarming! I'm shaking in my boots.



95 percent of warming is from water vapor, 5% from everything else, (methane, CO2, etc.) so if we spend trillions to cut CO2 emissions, we can reduce a fraction of 5% of one degree so maybe we could cut global warming by as much as .02 degrees (assuming we cut our CO2 production by 40% and no natural production (the lions share of it) is taken into account) over the next 100 years. (Assuming that countries like China, and other developing countries also comply, so they won't have a competitive advantage over us in the global economy?) Yeah, right!



But then again, those 1 degree estimates will probably change again in another month or two, considering how many times they have changed in the past few years. Maybe THIS time their projections are right. Every heard the saying, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me!"? They can't even get tomorrows temps correst to within 2 degrees 50% of the time, and now they want me to believe they know what will happen 100 years from now? After continually changing their estimates?



Funny how no one ever tells you that green house gasses are essential to life on Earth. In fact, if wasn't for the insulating effects of Green house gasses, we could expect weather reports to go like this, "Tomorrow will be a sunny 300 degrees, so bring the kids to the beach! Tonight will be a balmy 400 below zero, the following day will be a little warmer, maybe even hot, but the nights will start getting chilly soon!" Green house gasses are what makes life on almost any planet possible! Theorists think that life couldn't even exist on other planets, without water, because of the temp. extremes that water vapor, the main green house gas, prevents due to it's green-house gas characteristics.--not to mention biological functions that may require it.



Rodney

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• 1997 Warmest Year Of Century, NOAA Reports - pulatus, Wed May 5 09:17:35 2004
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