| Mark Probert 2005-09-26, 5:22 pm |
| jdeere2312@yahoo.com wrote:
> Clinton wrote:
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> Something similar happened in 1915, according to a USA Today
> editorial on the web today that disagrees that this is connected
> to global warning. It also mentions that typhoons in the Pacific
> and Indian ocean have declined instead of increasing, even
> though China and India are getting more industrialized.
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> All that would support the "cycles" theory.
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> Where is the rational refutation (other than ad hominems)
> for any of this?
1. A much higher than normal number of named hurricanes
2. A much higher than normal number of category 5 hurricanes
3. Serious melting of glaciers in widely separated areas of the globe.
4. Significant loss of the Antarctic ice shelf (I get a weekly email
alert with photos showing how big those glaciers are.)
5. The tropical ocean in the Atlantic is significantly warmer.
On a personal note, I rarely hear of anyone catching Yellowfin tuna in
my area...and that is all I am catching these days. A real tasty one on
Saturday. Yellowfin is more common in warmer deeper waters. Oh, and it
is lower in methyl mercury than Albacore.
These factors take the claim that this is just a peak in the usual
hurricance cycle and toss it out with the bathwater.
(Allow me another digression....I was watching some of the early morning
news shows over the weekend and caught the obligatory chef-du-jour. He
made a nice dish with tuna...and RECOMMENDED USING ALBACORE which is
much higher in methyl mercury. I was a tad annoyed at that, and emailed
the station.)
It reminds me of Heinlien's book, The Year of the Jackpot.
http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman...allnumber=mf419
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