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Default No Gorbal warming...in...58 yrs....

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:58:13 -0800 (PST), whit3rd
wrote:

On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 3:05:32 PM UTC-8, John B. wrote:

I suspect that the truth of the matter is that the temperature is
getting warmer and no one actually knows why nor whether this is
simply an anomaly or indicative of the beginning of a major
temperature cycle.


Get better suspicions. The effect was predictable, has
a known cause. No knowledge, however, predicts any natural
recovery to the initial state, as a "cycle" would suggest.

I see, so there was no recovery from the "little ice age" when the
Thames river used to freeze over, or, for that matter the temperature
cycles that are know to have occurred for the past 400,000 years that
have been plotted from ice cores?

The "simply an anomaly" label suggests we should not try to understand it.
Related language: "ideopathic", "unknown and unknowable", "great mystery",
"will of God".


According to an English dictionary "anomaly ~ noun -
deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule"

Nothing about "unknown", "great mystery", or your other suggestions.

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cheers,

John B.