Re: Global Warming Again!

[Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV>]

At 04:11 PM 7/18/01 -0700, Jerry Cohen wrote:

>beginning some 4,000 years ago and running until the birth of Christ, 

>temperatures averaged between 1.5 and 3 degrees Celsius higher than they 

>do today.



An important detail that has been omitted is: the rate of change. One 

degree change per thousand years has been observed before. The present data 

tentatively indicate about a degree per decade, which is about 2 orders of 

magnitude larger than before.



mike





Mike McNaughton

Los Alamos National Lab.

email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov

phone: (505)667-6130



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