in rec.radio.shortwave, David said about:
( OT) Global Warming, a primer . .


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:30:14 +0000 (UTC), "Larry"
wrote:

It's going to be difficult for those people to explain the very real
fact that the earth has been measurably cooling for the last eight
years, in spite of an increase in CO2 levels.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/env...2006_warm.html

nasa.gov ???
That says:

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2006 Was Earth's Fifth Warmest Year in the past century

02.08.07

Graphic listing the top five warmest years recorded Climatologists at
the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City
have found that 2006 was the fifth warmest year in the past century.

Image right:
The five warmest years since
the late 1880s, according to NASA scientists,
are in descending order
2005,
1998,
2002,
2003 and
2006.
Credit: NASA

Other groups that study climate change also rank these years as among
the warmest, though the exact rankings vary depending upon details of
the analyses. Results differ especially in regions of sparse
measurements, where scientists use alternative methods of estimating
temperature change.

Goddard Institute researchers used temperature data from weather
stations on land, satellite measurements of sea surface temperature
since 1982 and data from ships for earlier years.
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Thanks David!


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