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SocraticGadfly on March 14, 2006 - 11:29am

You want something else of serious concern?

Winter in parts of Canada has been as much as 6 degrees above normal -- six degrees Celsius, that is, or about 11 degrees Fahrenheit.

Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories were more than 6 degrees above normal, the story says.

Just a jet stream aberration? At least in part due to global warming?

Or, a climatic tipping point from global warming?

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PeakOilPete on March 14, 2006 - 2:42pm

or is the jet stream aberation a symptom of climate change? to me "global warming" is (generally) a misnomer that allows the head-in-the-sand types to argue against human-impact climate change because, while some places get hotter, others get cooler. selective tree vision rather than the forest: the american way. and there appears to be evidence of your "climatic tipping point from global warming" almost everywhere one looks.
oh, and we're running out of oil.
-pop

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SocraticGadfly on March 14, 2006 - 7:19pm

And another problem:

NASA says ozone is contributing to Arctic warming.

Globally, ozone accounts for perhaps one-seventh of the global warming and climate change that carbon dioxide does, Shindell said. However, a new study of climate change over the past 100 years indicates that ozone may be responsible for as much as 50 percent of the warming in the Arctic zone.

Question: While CFCs continue to be phased out, how much ground-level ozone from things such as automobile exhaust survives to be a factor in this cycle?

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