In article .com,
"Roger Coppock" posted excerpts from AP article, in
part:

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...n1075640.shtml
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Greenhouse Effect At All-Time High
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2005
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Skeptics sometimes dismiss the rise in greenhouse gases as part of a
naturally fluctuating cycle. The new study provides ever-more
definitive evidence countering that view, however.
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The bottom line: "There's no natural condition that we know about in a
really long time where the greenhouse gas levels were anywhere near
what they are now. And these studies tell us that there's a strong
relationship between temperature and greenhouse gases," said Oregon
State's Brook. "Which logically leads you to the conclusion that maybe
we should worry about temperature change in the future."
...

One feature of the strong relationship _not_ highlighted by Roger's post
is that the temperature rises _follow_ CO2 rises. The new analysis
explicitly confirms and extends this finding. Graphs of CO2-temperature
relationship were an "icon of calamitology" years before the "hockey
stick". The first finding that CO2 lagged, rather than led, temperature
change was quite a blow to the many who had inferred that the causal
relationship was CO2 causing the temperature rise. Some of the graphs
used to promote alarm about CO2 actually showed CO2 change slightly
before temperature change.

Very truly,

Steve Schulin
http://www.nuclear.com