Thanks for the "heads up" Bob.
Although "Global Warming" has become an issue "De Jour", propagated primarily by the news media's penchant for sensationalism and the promise of financial prosperity for environmental organizations such as the National Wildlife Federation, many studies and compilations of scientific information indicate that it may be a "Non-Event".
There is good reason why the worlds three largest powers have refused to sign on to the Kyoto Accord. I would recommend that anyone with an interest in the possibility that global warming might affect their future read the following report:
Global Cooling About to "Kick In"? (An Alternative View on Climate Change)
"Climate change is real, inevitable. After all, the only constant in nature is change. Considerable data has been presented to us in recent years suggesting that over the last century, the earth has warmed and the warming has man's fingerprint on it. Many assume that the steady long-term increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is behind the apparent warming.
However, in this paper, we will present evidence that man's influence may be mostly a local one through the effect of urbanization and that the longer-term changes are smaller and cyclical in nature and instead more likely driven by large-scale oscillations in the oceans and on the sun. We will also see these oscillations appear to have all switched modes in the last few years, suggesting the start of a cooling trend.
Temperatures over the United States when adjusted for urban factors show little net change over the past 70 years. A decadal scale cycle is however evident in the data. Multi decadal scale changes in the ocean (possibly related to changes in the speed of the Thermohaline Circulation) and on the sun may play a key role in producing these decadal scale changes in temperatures. When they combined in modes that favored cooling in the 1950s into the 1960s, temperatures declined. When they combined in modes favoring warming as they did in the 1920s into the 1930s and again in the 1980s into the 1990s, temperatures rose.
Finally and importantly, it should be noted that the factors appear to have recently changed to modes favoring a cooling. If so, the recent winters of 2000/01 (coldest ever November and December for the United States) and 2002/03 (one of the coldest in the eastern states in many decades) could be sign of things to come."
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