"Lawrence13" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:25:32 UTC+1, Alastair wrote:
"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message

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Lawrence13 wrote:

On Monday, 20 May 2013 21:25:28 UTC+1, Alastair wrote:





Ah! at last: even you accept cooling is setting in.



Don't put words in my mouth. There is no global cooling! Temperatures
may

have steadied but that could be only a forerunner to a sharp rise.



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I don't take too much notice of all this but I find the semantics

interesting. Rather than rate of change, if the absolute temperature of

one year is less than the previous year then it's cooled slightly and
if

the absolute value has risen from the previous year it has warmed. I'm
not

say this means anything in the important matter of long term trends but

the wording would be factual I guess?



Yes. The sceptics choose 1998 as the start year and the Hadley record

because no other year since then has exceeded that one in the Hadley
record.

The Hadley record ignores the Arctic because it does not have enough data

from there, but the Arctic is where most of the warming is happening.



There is a huge undercover propoaganda machine financed by the US oil and

coal industries mixing facts and smears to discredit the science.



Lawrence's jibe is typical.



Cheers, Alastair.

Oh Alastair, a huge undercover propaganda machine ?


Why are you so adamant that CO2 is the only game in town.

Don't put words in my mouth! CO2 is not the only game in town. But it is
the only one we can do something about.