Great, a 30 year period that ended thirty years ago. And the climate = data center you linked to is a US set of data, not global. =20 Try looking at something recent. =20 The intergovernmental panel on climate change is located at: =20 http://www.ipcc.ch/ =20 Here is another fine site explaining and summarizing some of the climate = change information. =20 http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/ =20 This link will reveal some very good information regarding the primary = climate change skeptics. =20 =20 http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/skeptic-organizations.html =20 There is more on the web, but generally you can get there with a basic = web search. =20 =20 =20 =20 VISIT HERPETOLOGICAL CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY www.herpconbio.org = <http://www.herpconbio.org>=20 A New Journal Published in Partnership with Partners in Amphibian and = Reptile Conservation and the World Congress of Herpetology. =20 Malcolm L. McCallum Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Texas A&M University Texarkana 2600 Robison Rd. Texarkana, TX 75501 O: 1-903-223-3134 H: 1-903-791-3843 Homepage: https://www.eagle.tamut.edu/faculty/mmccallum/index.html =20
________________________________ From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news on behalf of = Paul Cherubini Sent: Wed 6/28/2006 5:00 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: Wall Street Journal op-ed on "An Inconvenient Truth" Richard Lindzen pointed out that "global mean temperatures decreased between 1940 and the early '70s, despite increases in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Lindzen suggests this period of global cooling was due to "a natural fluctuation in the climate system." NOAA climate data http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/ na.html indicates mean temperatures in the USA also declined between 1939-1972: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/mastertech/ustemp.jpg Thus, thanks to the balanced information provided by Lindzen, Wall Street Journal readers realize that another decades long period of global cooling might be just around the corner. Paul Cherubini El Dorado, Calif.
