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Is a new ice age imminent ?

Posted on Wednesday, 27 February, 2008 | 13 comments

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966. The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February.According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average." China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century.

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#9 Posted by www375 on 27 February, 2008, 19:25
Whenever we have a day of above or below normal temperature, all of the huggers start screaming global warming. If you look at the record temps on the weathercast, most of them are 50, 75, 100 years ago. When you have varying numbers, you HAVE to have highs and lows................

#10 Posted by Jaded1 on 28 February, 2008, 6:12
Hating to be pedantic... "-0.3F cooler" means 0.3F warmer. Just the mathematician in me I suppose...

#11 Posted by BlueZone on 28 February, 2008, 7:53
LMAO Good point Jaded1.

#12 Posted by Harmon-E Cherry on 28 February, 2008, 11:30
Come on. Just because they don't understand the use of the negative sign doesn't mean they're bad scientists.

#13 Posted by greggK on 28 February, 2008, 11:38
You're right about the lies of the atmosphere warming the globe in order to sell hybrid cars and it seems like the people are doing the opposite; they're driving more and using more pollutants so it will be less that they have to use in the future and I guess they think the atmosphere will ...

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