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Originally Posted by harveyc
John, I think you'll have to wait quite a while for that and even hope for return of sun spots to have "normal" temperatures. I thought we were cooler than normal, overall, this year, but I guess we were close enough to come up as normal. It was a good year for bananas, though, since we didn't have the extreme lows that are common, just lots of days with frost (more hours below 45F than normal).
Harvey
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All kidding aside, it's those colder lows that keep me from planting my coco palm.
Those who try to scare us on these changes (coastal cities where 100s of people live, etc). will take many, many years to occur, usually stated by the saner of the alarmists, in the 100 year range. Even my worst clients can move in a much shorter time frame than that......the new coastline will still be populated by people who want beachfront property.
Believe me, there are plenty of folks trying to scare us too. Every environmental researcher who needs a grant to 'study' global warming (why does it need study when we are told by algore the the debate is over?) will ginn up some data that ecplains the next tragedy to befall the earth.
Global warming is no longer scary enough, we now have "Sudden Climate Change" which is currently defined as gloable wrming followed by an immediate Ice Age. Now,...this is very, very, scary.....maybe the grants to study this will be bigger. If these phenomena are manmade, it would have shown up by now, if they are natural, all of the study in the world will not change it.
All of these studies of course will be funded by you and I, causing a lower standard of living, higher costs.
Read Michael Crichton's speech in Washington DC (delivered in 2005) on 'consensus' science.
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He was a brilliant man and I, for one, will miss him. I didn't agree with everything he wrote about, but it was hard to refute his facts. He was, beyond an author and a doctor, a scientist in the truest sense.
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