Paulus wrote:

They talk of "unprecedented" warming. Is it really? Three quarters of a
degree in a century??
Unprecedented??

The three-quarters of a degree rise in the past forty years has been enough
to reduce the area of ice in the Arctic last summer to half what it was at
the beginning of that period. The latest forecast is that it will all melt
within the next ten years. Presumably that doesn't bother you.

A little light reading - should you be interested:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Lib...nts/Arrhenius/
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki...:Arrhenius_pdf

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...dex.html#atmos
http://www.euronet.nl/users/e_wesker/climate.html
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/gcc/
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globa.../medieval.html

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman, not newsboy.
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