talk.politics.misc

"Donna Evleth" wrote in message news:%devleth@...
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>> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:24:02 -0800 (PST)
>> Subject: Re: Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age. Snow cover
>> over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at
>> any time since 1966.
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>> Those that know...No longer refer to it as "Global Warming" as if to
>> say that the heat is NOT everything about the process. Some are using
>> the term "Weather Disruption" meaning the process will have different
>> consequences, depending on how the rising water will create the
>> disruption of former predictable weather in specific localities. In
>> other words the heat is the origin of the disruption, but some folks
>> may be in for a real shock ,who are used to dry desert heat.
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> Weather disruption is a very good term. I have been following weather in
> areas I know well - and some others - for the last few years. My conclusion
> is exactly that - "weather disruption".
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> One example. In 2003, France had a record heat wave. Really record.
> Thousands of people, mostly old, died. There was much criticism made of
> France at that time (it was during the period when France was a paria for
> not having backed Bush's war in Iraq). On newsgroups such as
> there were cruel comment about the French "frying grannies in the attic".
> Italy had the same death toll, but lied about their figures at the
> beginning, so France got the heat (literally). It is true that France did
> not have much air conditioning. We spent all of that period in Paris and
> only ran into air conditioning once. But the reason there wasn't much air
> conditioning is because normally it isn't needed. The following summer did
> not have that kind of heat. Nor any of the rest of the following summers to
> date.
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> This was weather disruption.
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> Thank you for posting this definition. Normally I remove cross posts, but
> this time, because I don't know where you originally posted this, I will
> leave it in.
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Now, now, Donna. Your post didn't have the proper number of
"chevrons" in it. You know how confusing that is for those who are
too stupid to actually read the dialog. :-)


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