At 4:16 PM -0500 1/20/02, Ed Weick wrote: >Harry, I'm not in a position to take sides on the global >warming/cooling issue, and I can't say that I've read to IPCC >material very closely. Yet the material does suggest that some >matters have been reasonably well established - e.g. the general >upward trend in global surface temperatures during the past hundred >years or so. I'm not a climatologist, so I really can't comment >further on this finding or any of the others in the IPCC reports. >However, I would say that if a large number of highly qualified >people suggest we have a problem, there may be reasonable grounds >for suspecting we might have one. >
Note that PPCC stands for "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change." "Global warming" is the catch term used mostly in the popular press, although it is also part of the PPCC's claims. The more complete claim is that weather will be more erratic, more variable, with an overall average warming trend. Obviously, global warming is not refuted by some local temperatures going down. In fact, some "scenarios predict that Britain could get much colder, if melting ice from Greenland diverts the warming gulf stream away from the British Isles." http://www.canuk.org.uk/aboutmain.htm Cheers, Zeno Swijtink
