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Subject: key point

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Date Posted: 22:21:21 01/21/08 Mon
In reply to: Curmudgeon 's message, ""Ice returns as Greenland temps plummet" AlGore denied our interview request." on 12:16:30 01/17/08 Thu

The mayor cautioned against thinking that the freezing temperature indicated that global warming claims were overblown. He noted that a nearby glacier had retracted more in the past two decades than in recorded history.

I guess you still don't read your own articles
>Ice returns as Greenland temps plummet
>
>Residents insist Greenland's freezing temperatures
>don't mean global warming has been called off
>
>While the rest of Europe is debating the prospects of
>global warming during an unseasonably mild winter, a
>brutal cold snap is raging across the semi-autonomous
>nation of Greenland.
>
>On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of
>prominent world leaders have visited in recent years
>to get a first-hand impression of climate change,
>temperatures have dropped so drastically that the
>water has frozen over for the first time in a decade.
>
>'The ice is up to 50cm thick,' said Henrik Matthiesen,
>an employee at Denmark's Meteorological Institute who
>has also sailed the Greenlandic coastline for the
>Royal Arctic Line. 'We've had loads of northerly winds
>since Christmas which has made the area miserably
>cold.'
>
>Matthiesen suggested the cold weather marked a return
>to the frigid temperatures common a decade ago.
>
>Temperatures plunged to -25�C earlier this month,
>clogging the bay with ice and making shipping
>impossible for small crafts, according to Anthon
>Frederiksen, the mayor of the town of Ilulissat, where
>Disko Bay is located.
>
>'On the other hand, it's an advantage for fishermen
>who rely on dogsleds for transportation,' Frederiksen
>said.
>
>The mayor cautioned against thinking that the freezing
>temperature indicated that global warming claims were
>overblown. He noted that a nearby glacier had
>retracted more in the past two decades than in
>recorded history.
>
>'We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing
>conditions over the past 1100 years,' said
>Frederiksen. 'Temperatures change at regular
>intervals.'
>
>Although Greenland's capital, Nuuk, and much of the
>island saw temperatures drop below -25� C yesterday,
>milder temperatures appeared to be on the way in the
>near future.
>
>
> >href="http://www.cphpost.dk/get/105114.html">http://www
>.cphpost.dk/get/105114.html

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In http://www.voy.com/113118/13764.html you wrote:	Curmudgeon	09:42:48 01/24/08 Thu
As I said.... -- sci guy, 15:44:09 01/24/08 Thu That earns an A for creativity, F for honesty. -- Curmudgeon, 07:46:03 01/25/08 Fri