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Global warming speeds nature's alarm clock

Is warming abnormal? or are we just returning to normal? This article focuses entirely on negatives, mostly theoreticle. I mean maybe we could get in an extra crop of ethanol.

I say enjoy your ride. Climate change is inevitable whether man caused or not. The alligator skeleton on the hill behind my house proves it was much warmer when he was here. I have never hear anybody say what the true normal temperature of earth is... Maybe we are just getting back to normal.

There is a major flaw in this anecdotal "evidence." Most of the U.S. has not shown any warming in the past 100 years, including rural areas surrounding Washington D.C. and most of rural America. The Southeast has cooled.

Cities, on the other hand, get dramatically warmer as they get larger. The cherry blossom bloom in D.C. is inexorably linked to the urban heat island effect. An urban microclimate cannot be taken as a measure of global trends.

It's amazing that proponents of global warming will estimate earth's temperature with anything BUT a thermometer. It's even more amazing when their peer reviewers don't call them on it, as in this case.

The flat global temperature trend of the past decade should make it obvious to everyone that "global warming" is a hoax.