On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:42:27 -0800, Ron Lee wrote
(in article ):

Mxsmanic wrote:

Jay Honeck writes:

I suppose it's a habit thing: It's January, dammit, and folks just
don't expect to be flying -- so they're just NOT? Dunno -- but it's
sure been wonderful, flying in shirtsleeves in January...

You'll pay for it when it's 115 degrees in July. The world is getting
warmer.

That is just a simulated weather forecast. In Colorado we have had
blizzards, unusual snow amounts and lots of cold. Global warming
fanatics should look at global temperatures over the last million
years or so (certainly hundreds of thousands of years) then shut up.

Yep, a single year is suddenly global warming upon us. Not one reputable
scientist would agree, but certain media airheads (probably the same ones who
think the winter solstice is the first "official" day of winter) say it
anyway. What good are facts when you are on a crusade?

The current warm winter on the eastern seaboard and the cold weather in the
west should be expected whenever we have an El Nino. Last year we had a La
Nina, the exact opposite of an El Nino, causing a few extra typhoons in the
Philippines. That country likely will get milder weather this year.

Greenland once was, well, green in the tenth century when Eric the Red
discovered it. Oranges grew in Ireland then. The Medieval Warming Period
ended with the Little Ice Age, which continued until the 19th century. Global
warming and cooling and have far more correlation with sunspot activity than
they have with anything else.

Nevertheless, it is unreasonable to assume that CO2 levels are not having a
significant effect on global warming. The question is, if we were somehow
able to stop humanity from dumping any more CO2 into the atmosphere, would
global warming stop? It seems unlikely. We are once again entering a period
of increased solar activity. The best we could probably hope for would be to
slow global warming slightly, shorten the warming period, or reduce its
effect. But we could not stop it, even if every human being left the planet
right this very instant.