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The Daring Dufas wrote:
Hey Global Warming goofballs, it's 12 frigging degrees here in
Alabamastan at 8:15am and I just heard on the news that there is a
propane shortage in the state because supplies are based on the average
expected need over the past decade of winters. Perhaps the person
responsible for determining the overall needed supplies of propane for
the state is a Global Warming Believer? The lowest temperature here in
Birmingham last year was 21°F. The average Winter low temperature is
33°F here in Birmingham with a normal Winter average of 35°F for the
whole state. So OK you Global Warming nut jobs, what is your
explanation? Make it good, the more deranged, the better. o_O

TDD

Look, I know you think Alabamastan is the entire world, but it isn't.
Even though the annual average global temperature has been quite
near a local maximum for several years, the result of that is
more unstable weather patterns, hence in this year's cold winter.

Why would you expect the temperature in any given location to be
strictly linearly increasing? Climate is a complex system,
more complicated than the stock market. Over the last hundred
years the stock market has trended upward, even though individual
stock prices have gone up and down a quite bit. The average world
temperature has exhibited similar behavior.


Cindy Hamilton
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