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Despite this glaring omission, I still wanted to applaud the Reader’s and Mr. Kleine’s bravery and intellectual integrity in completely ignoring even the pretense of journalistic objectivity or scientific skepticism in order to forward this great tradition of doomsaying.
I also love that part that “the five warmest [winters on record] have all occurred since 1990.” Consider that meteorologists have only been keeping records since 1880, just over 140 years, and accurate satellite data has only existed for a few decades. Now compare that data set to the millions of years of history of the earth’s atmosphere, and one can see what an “accurate” sampling of meteorological data that we are making assumptions upon and, consequently, decisions of worldwide scope. This type of accurate sampling is just like conducting an election-year poll of a single voter and predicting that Ralph Nader will win the next presidential election in a landslide with 99.99% of the vote. Great work!
Mike Timble
