Sunday, April 20, 2008

News Flash: It will be hot this summer!!!

I knew this would happen. It's much easier to convince people there is warming when it's warm outside; get thee behind me awful winter...and hurry! Of course, this flies in the face of other predictions that state we're in for a cooling spell.

Read below and see if you can't pick out what's missing. They've let slip a nasty little secret and tried to bury it in a way that you wouldn't notice--the temperatures (again, if you believe their baseline) stopped warming in 1998!!! (That's 10 years ago people.)

Summer forecast hot for Europe | Environment | Reuters
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But, because of global warming, both winter and summer temperatures over the last few years have been above the long-term average of the three decades running up to 2000.

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