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Old January 12th 08, 07:57 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
CHRIS KIDD CHRIS KIDD is offline
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Default 2007 COLDEST YEAR THIS CENTURY AND 2008 SET TO BE COLDER

Probably the US/other mis-use of 'first floor' - for the UK people this
means 1/100th of a 100 story building - that's a lot (for the US it's a few
mm - sorry 1/10ths inches on the ground floor)...

"Roger Coppock" wrote in message
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Score one for Rodney!

On Jan 10, 2:40 pm, Rodney Blackall
wrote:
In article , B0NZ0
wrote:

"If the atmosphere was a 100 story building, our annual anthropogenic
CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first
floor" D'Aleo


And we all know how dangerously flammable lino is ...

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