Re: [asa] Pictures of a Warming Planet

My goodness, is Janice now posting about a decadal oscillation? Is
there any evidence in the global temperature records used that show
such a decadal pattern?
Seems to me that Janice is confusing oscillating patterns and trends.
Augustine, roll over...

Thanks Rich for correcting yet another blooper from our dear friend.
As I posted in an earlier posting science and religiosity seem to
often be inversely correlated, especially when it comes to
evolutionary science. See Believers and disbelievers in evolution by
Allan Mazur for some interesting data.

Why is it that conservative fundamentalists have such a dislike for
the science of evolution and in this case, global warming? I just do
not understand. Evolution sure, but global warming? Is it because of
the impending 'end times' or the belief that we can do with God's
Creation whatever we want?

Pim

On 1/15/07, Rich Blinne <rich.blinne@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/15/07, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > At 06:19 PM 1/15/2007, Rich Blinne wrote:
> >
> > Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. The question is whether
> there is global warming and whether anthropogenic greenhouse gases caused
> it. The temperature trend by itself doesn't answer the question. But, there
> is also a trend for higher nighttime lows and lower stratospheric
> temperatures (with two spikes for volcanic eruptions). Both of these trends
> speak against solar forcing as a cause. The fact that CO2 went way up in the
> same time frames also speaks volumes. See the graphs for yourself here:
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/01/13/weekinreview/20070114_BASICS_GRAPHIC.html
> >
> > @ http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/
> >
> > Note the increase in temperature a few years ago -- coinciding with all
> the hysteria about GW. Also note where the temperatures appear to be
> heading. A cooler, wetter period is predicted -- it'll be interesting to see
> how GW Henny Pennys spin that into their apocalyptic scenarios. ~ Janice
> >
> > http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/pdo_warm_cool3.jpg
> >
> > http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/img/pdo_latest.png
> >

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Received on Mon Jan 15 21:05:03 2007