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Han

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4ax.com:

The "correct" term is "climate change"
Her in Ontario we've had a pretty "warm" winter, while eastern Europe
is MUCH colder than normal.
"Climate Change" appears to be causing extremes much more noticeable
than the reported 2? degree average world temperature increase over
how many years?.

I don't care about "correct" terms. Indeed globally averaged, temps are
apparently slowly increasing. IMNSHO, that is likely to be partly caused
by increases in CO2 (and probably CH4 from erupting cattle as well).
Another factor may well be the increasing urbanization and paving with
blacktop ("city island effect"). Everywhere incidental temp fluctuations
from year to year get attention much more. There was great excitement in
Holland during the recent cold spell about the possibility of an
Elfstedentocht (11 cities race and tour on natural ice of some 200 km/120
miles), but the ice was by far not thick enough over great stretches of
the route http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht. The last race
was in 1997. I remember listening to the radio reports of the progress
of some of these races, before TV ...

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Best regards
Han
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