Skip, just one question -- Who was taking and recording those temperatures way back in A.D. 200?

Surely you'd have to see that those are projections drummed up to support their theory. And after all, it DID snow in Houston and farther south here this winter -- tell me that the colder temps progressively farther south are indicator of "global warming." You'd have a hard time proving it in lots of places this winter, and NOT just in Texas. Down here, the past month has been one of steady cool or cold days; the longest cold spell we've had that I can remember.

Besides how can a NY'er like yourself get all worked up about "global warming" when you've been snowed in for so much of the winter?
Jimbob
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