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[Andy]

> ...  I wonder what the global
> warming people would think about this????  Probably call it just climate
> change !!!!!  Go figure.

This is something that really riles up my (adult) daughter.

The mainstream press seems to have locked onto the term "global
warming" because they don't get it; what's really happening is "global
climate change".  For years now, she has been trying to correct people
who say "global warming".  But "global warming" is easier to say, and
that's what the press (and Al Gore?) seem to have become infatuated
with, even though that is only one small part of the picture.

What we may be be seeing, over several decades, is changes in climate
that varies widely from place to place.  I think it may get a lot more
stormy here in the northeast.  Other places will get dry.  Some places
will see average temperatures rising, in other places it will fall.

The Sahara was once lush forest.  That's what climate change is about.

Along with that, almost as a footnote, the average planetary
temperature is expected to gradually increase, very slowly.  But you
have to wait over VERY long periods of time (decades), and average the
ENTIRE globe.  Your corner of the globe may be cooling down, while
other areas get warmer.

One measurement, taken one year, at one location, is totally
meaningless when talking about long-term global averages.

The effect of global warming is small enough it might not even be felt
(your averaged temp. might go from 59.5 to say 61.5 deg.), but the
effect on the ice caps, and the habitability of coastlines, may be
profound.

What kind of year-to-year variations in December temperature did
Brooksville have before 2010?  The drop to 49.7 might be normal.

To get back on-topic ... I saw some headlines recently (last couple of
weeks), that implied scientists' understanding of how the sun works,
needs to be totally re-written.  That might be an over-statement, but
the idea is that we are learning new things by leaps and bounds, in
only the last month or two, because of new observational capabilities
(satellites).  Does anyone know more?

Andy