On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:33:41 GMT, "Roald B. Larsen"
wrote:

:
:"Roger Coppock" skrev i melding
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: China isn't the globe. One winter storm is not climate.
:
:
:That is right.
:Winter will always bring some cold spells, even
:farther to the south than expected.
:
:The real news is the warm spells that can now
:be experienced in the far north even in winter!
:And the general raise in median temperatures.
:
:Just to put the weather report from China in perspective:
:Yesterday the northern part of Norway saw the warmest
:January day since temperature measurements started 150
:years ago. Svalbard (in some countries called Spitzbergen),
:which is situated on 78 degrees North, is in for temps. of
:around 3 degrees Celsius tomorrow! There is no wonder
:why December brought a new record minimum for extent
f Arctic sea ice:
:
:http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/n_plot.html
:
:Those AGW-deniers does not know the difference
:between weather and climate, and few of them will
:ever be willing to learn, it seems.

A quick question for you.

I'll assume that GW is real, and that it's entirely man made.

Are you SURE it's a bad thing? Absolutely sure?

Are we already above the optimum global climate temperature? I mean,
if you take all human activites into account, everything from growing
crops to sunbathing on the beach, would we be better off with a colder
overall climate temperature? Because I've read accounts of the little
ice age, and it sounded awful.

It's possible, I suppose, that in 1990 we were at the absolue optimum
temperature and since then it's been worse for humans as it's gotten a
little hotter. But that seems like an awfully big coincidence. Isn't
it just as likely that if things get a little warmer, the growing
season is longer, so there's more food and fewer people are hungry,
people use less oil to keep warm in the winter, you can live at a
higher lattitude - that all that would all be a good thing?