Hi Chuck, On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Chuck Hards wrote:
What the debate is about, as I understand it, is that the current warming trend has happened far faster and to a greater degree than any historical or pre-historic change for a given amount of time, and it clearly coincides with the huge spike in greenhouse gas emissions of 20th-century industrial growth.
It's unfortunate that you don't have time to review the article posted at the beginning of this thread. One of the theses of that article is that the supposed recent unprecedented rise in global temperature simply does not exist. The author of the article makes the case that the "hockey stick" seen in U.N. temperature graphs is the result of flaws in climate models as well as careful selection ("cherry picking"?) of historical climate data. Indeed, models which show the sudden recent rise in temperature produce the same rise when fed random data. This fact doesn't give me confidence that real science is being done. Chris