Re: An inconvenient Truth -- update

Peter Cole wrote:
<http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11676>

"WASHINGTON -- There is sufficient evidence from tree rings,
boreholes, retreating glaciers, and other "proxies" of past surface
temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few
decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in
the last 400 years, according to a new report from the National
Research Council."

So the earth was warmer over 400 years ago. Fascinating.

"The report was requested by Congress after a controversy arose last
year over surface temperature reconstructions published by
climatologist Michael Mann and his colleagues in the late 1990s. The
researchers concluded that the warming of the Northern Hemisphere in
the last decades of the 20th century was unprecedented in the past
thousand
years. In particular, they concluded that the 1990s were the warmest
decade, and 1998 the warmest year.

So does Gore deplore his own administration's abominal record? Fascinating.


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