It has been getting warmer for several thousand years! About 10,000 years ago you could walk from England to France and Germany because of all the water locked up in the ice caps. Five hundred years ago you could roast an ox on the frozen River Thames in Winter. Thirty thousand years ago lions and hippos roamed England.
What gets to me is that all of these stories are pushed by people with an axe to grind; academics looking to their next research grant, journalists with a newspaper to sell. Quotes are made of 'averages' but never any mention of the standard deviation or any other measure of distribution. In many cases the difference from the 'average' could well be less than the mean error in the measuring instruments of the earliest times; after all, the Fahrenheit scale is only 250 years old and there is no mention of how accurately temperatures were recorded. I'm not anti global warming theories, just sceptical which is the result of my training in flight trials - don't believe any claims (particularly from a manufacturer) until they have been proven! John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > < > http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9833022-39.html?part=rss&subj=new > s&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 > > > > Record melting ice volume and temps. Just a fluke? > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
