[Vwdiesel] How cold is it?

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Yeah, noticed the problem after I sent it.  Just goes to show you that  
I shouldn't type when I don't have my reading glasses on.  Of course  
what I meant was my 	SCIENTIST AND TEACHER side!!  Climate is the long  
term conditions of an area or the whole planet.  Weather is what ever  
is happening right now at any given place.  Climate change is caused  
by global warming which will and does produce odd weather  
circumstances like snow in Houston before Chicago has any or no snow  
in November in Toronto for the first time in about 60 years.  It also  
produces droughts where they don't normally occur or extra heavy  
rainfall in other places.  Climate is a complicated picture.  The last  
time the earth saw CO2 levels anywhere close to where they are now was  
during the dinosaur days.  No ice anywhere on the planet and there was  
an ocean that extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean.   
But as one of my students recently pointed out, the earth will go on,  
even if we humans manage to kill ourselves off.  We are, after all,  
kind of like fleas to the earth!!!  Hayden

On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:16 AM, mark shepherd wrote:

>>
>> Besides, we scientifically illiterate people in the US need to learn
>> the difference between WEATHER  and CLIMATE!   Just my scientific
>> teacher side coming out!!!  Hayden
>
>
> Interesting; if you claim to be scientifically iliterate on the one  
> hand
> then admit to being a scientific teacher on the other, are we indeed  
> in
> trouble?
> :o)
>
> I assume that 'climate' is a handful of 'weathers' mixed up?
> My immediate trouble with the whole human effect scam, is; what kind  
> of
> mathematicians eminating from East Anglia university would use the  
> word
> 'trick'  in respect of any data.
> I'd never use the word trick over the dinner table or anywhere else to
> describe interpolation, or as in this case wild extrapolation.
> As for low definition graphs with suppressed zero scales, the lack of
> fundamental knowledge of  leading, lagging, or controlling variables,
> turning points etc... I feel the need to poke my eyes out with a   
> dirty oil
> dipstick in frustration...
> }8~(
>
> Math-Mark
>
>
>
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