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Originally posted by VAlibrarian
Well, I think this is interesting stuff. It is an example of a temperature measurement which supports the reality of the global warming phenomenon. Taken as an isolated event, it could be a freak occurence. Taken as one example of tens of thousands of measurements over several decades, it is not really something that can be debated. Global warming is here.
Since we have had three and a half centuries of rising temperatures, I don't think there is any doubt that it continues to rise.
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When your team of doctors suggests that heart surgery is necesary to save your life, do you thank them for their opinion but decline their offer on the grounds that the surgery was suggested solely as a way for them to make money? No? I suggest that this goofy denial mechanism is at work with global warming. We do not wish to adjust our lifestyles in North America to take action against global warming.
The problem is not that we know that we need a heart operation. The problem is closer to a situation where you know the patient has had a stroke, but strokes can be caused by blood clots, or by haemorrhage, and the treatment for one can be fatal if the cause is the other.
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Goodbye Greenland ice sheet.
The Vikings would have been overjoyed at that scenario – since it was the expansion of those ice sheets that destroyed their colonies in that region of the world . Alas, the retreat of the ice sheet comes too late for them, as they were driven from Greenland around 1350.
George
