Are the temperature records erroneous or are they just city temperature records? Maybe one of the problems with city records is a constantly changing albedo as...
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gbalella
Mar 26, 2000 3:02 pm
Tahr I've not been writing lately but have been reading. One too many times now I've seen you state that the NAS has discounted global warming. Nothing could ...
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dmgan106
Mar 26, 2000 10:32 pm
The urban heat island effect as a reason for faulty global temperature records has been thoroughly researched and discarded. Everywhere they look they find ...
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gbalella
Mar 27, 2000 3:15 am
Thats right dmgan. The skeptics like to throw in the urban island heat effect to confuse the issue. Its been throughly studied and the data is gathered in such...
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fredwx
Mar 27, 2000 4:51 am
The net effect of the "heat island" is increasing average temperatures (most notable with winter mins) in and near cities. I suspect that the vast majority of ...
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fredwx
Mar 27, 2000 5:01 am
<The urban heat island effect as a reason for faulty global temperature records has been thoroughly researched and discarded. Everywhere they look they find...
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dmgan106
Mar 27, 2000 1:17 pm
My response was carefully worded: "The urban heat island effect as a reason for faulty GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORDS".<br><br>While it is true that temperature in...
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cpaynter
Mar 27, 2000 4:51 pm
Anyone who follows the history of global warming science vs. climate reality ought to keep a copy of the late Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 classic, The Structure of ...
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gbalella
Mar 27, 2000 8:38 pm
cpaynter writes,<br>"In that case, Kuhn notes, scientists first ignore the problem, and then once they find it exists, attempt increasingly ornate,<br>...
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dmgan106
Mar 27, 2000 9:26 pm
LOL, LOL, LOL. Cpaynter says: "once they find (the problem) exists, attempt increasingly ornate, bizarre, and inconsistent explanations"<br><br>I want to ...
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tarh77
Mar 27, 2000 10:18 pm
Our discussion have drifted far off the subject of GLOBAL WARMING I think it might be wise to define exactly what we are discussing a little more ...
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cpaynter
Mar 27, 2000 10:34 pm
From the NAS report:<br><br>"The Earth's surface temperature has risen about 0.4 to 0.8 degrees Celsius - or 0.7 to 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit -- in the last...
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Lasallia
Mar 27, 2000 10:40 pm
I heard today that the average temperature for central England is 1.5 degrees higher. Central England temperature records go back to 1659. The recording...
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searchh2o
Mar 28, 2000 1:40 am
Hey is that why we should look at NASA's data and go by that? Well if we did we would see that the atmosphere is actually cooling. go figure...
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searchh2o
Mar 28, 2000 1:52 am
So we are finally going to start talking about the real reason for any atmospheric problems ie..temps and climate.... ocean based changes. Well geeeez maybe I...
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searchh2o
Mar 28, 2000 2:01 am
Well I will be heading out of here....I have to be traveling quite a bit in the near future for uncle Sam, so I wish all well even those whom I disagree with....
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tarh77
Mar 28, 2000 2:12 am
I don't understand what you are talking about. The 1.5 degF or C? is that a difference in the annual average for London in 1659 and today or is it the ...
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rural_guy_99
Mar 28, 2000 2:49 am
Seems like the weather this year in England is much like it was in 1750, as stated in Gentleman's Magazine for that year:<br>"The weather is so warm here ...
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tarh77
Mar 28, 2000 3:03 am
I for one, will miss you and Kate. I knew I had a friend when you posted.<br><br>I haven't heard from MYO since before Christmas and have no idea where she has...
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dmgan106
Mar 28, 2000 1:51 pm
I don't know if you are referring to the report behind the recent Science article published by NOAA scientists, but if you do, there is a discrepancy between ...
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worldliving
Mar 29, 2000 10:06 am
Hi all of u, how is life? <br>Well, the DYK for this week is out, Did You Know? these amazing facts, if u didn't why don't u find it out.<br><br>Easy way just...
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cpaynter
Mar 29, 2000 7:47 pm
While we here in the United States enjoyed the warmest winter on record, people in Mongolia and northern China experienced a winter so harsh even by their ...
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tom_tinsee
Mar 30, 2000 4:31 am
it's sinking all because of global warming...
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tarh77
Mar 30, 2000 1:29 pm
If a fact, and I don't doubt that it is, could it be sinking due to plate tectonics? Alaaska is very geologically active as witnessed by the Good Friday Quake...
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dmgan106
Mar 30, 2000 2:24 pm
In their new book "Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling Jr., cogently argue that global warming is a very real phenomenon"...
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asfokas
Mar 30, 2000 3:58 pm
I'm not sure of the role of global warming on the subsidence either but I do know part of Anchorage is built on sand and clay soils that liquified in the 1964...
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cpaynter
Mar 30, 2000 6:00 pm
dmgan106,<br><br>Of course they argue that global warming is a real phenomenon. But this doesn't mean that they agree with the modelers or the doomsayers that ...
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dmgan106
Mar 31, 2000 5:40 pm
Please allow me to share Plan B of the fossil fuel proponents, ie, GW is real and CO2 is increasing but it is good!! (Plan A was outright denial that GW ...
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cpaynter
Mar 31, 2000 7:57 pm
Ooops!! Sorry!! Try Again!! Don't lump GES in with all the fossil fuel proponents the denied global warming.<br><br>The narrator says there has been warming....
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Lasallia
Mar 31, 2000 8:44 pm
I have looked at the "material". I've seen dubiously presented data, poppycock about CO2, plant growth and water supply, and a whole lot of garbage from an ...