Originally posted by BlueSky:

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Originally posted by Eric P.:
[b]Some guy on the radio said the colder temps are evidence of global warming.

What a crock.

You think "global warming" means it's going to be hot everywhere all the time? That's a common misunderstanding. Climate (long-term patterns) and weather (current conditions at a specific location) are two different things. As the climate changes, weather patterns change also, so in essence the climate is "cause" and weather is "effect."

As other posters have written, global warming is occurring, and as I said in my earlier post, the issue is whether man is responsible and the use of warming as a political agenda.

I agree completely with those who say a double-standard exists for the U.S. vs. other countries. When I visited Bangkok, the air was so foul that the traffic cops on the corner wore surgical masks. [/b]

..."Average without meaning

"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth", Bjarne Andresen says, an an expert of thermodynamics. "A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate".

He explains that while it is possible to treat temperature statistically locally, it is meaningless to talk about a a global temperature for Earth. The Globe consists of a huge number of components which one cannot just add up and average. That would correspond to calculating the average phone number in the phone book. That is meaningless. Or talking about economics, it does make sense to compare the currency exchange rate of two countries, whereas there is no point in talking about an average 'global exchange rate'.