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"Lone Ranger" wrote in
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> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:12:37 GMT, "Marty"
> wrote:
>
>>>"Lone Ranger" wrote:
>>> http://www.barentsobserver.com/hottest-arctic-winter-ever.4460876-16149.html
>>>
>>> This winter might become the mildest winter in Northern Norway ever
>>> registered. So far the average temperature in parts of the region
>>> has
>>> been up to eight degrees Celsius above the normal.
>>>
>>> It is temperature measurements from the winter months December,
>>> January and February which is the fundament for the alarming high
>>> average. The measurements started in 1866 at some weather stations
>>> and this winter seems to break all records. Climate scientist Ketil
>>> Isaksen at The Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Oslo says to
>>> NRK
>>> Troms and Finnmark that this is a foretaste of the global warming.
>>>
>>> Some of the weather stations at Finnmarksvidda have had an average
>>> at eight degrees Celsius above the normal average in the three
>>> winter
>>> months. At the station Karasjok-Markannjarga the average has been
>>> minus 7,9 degrees Celsius, while it normally is minus 16 degrees
>>> Celsius.
>>>
>>> In Northern Norways largest city, Tromsø, the average temperature
>>> this
>>> winter has been -0,4 degrees Celsius. That is 3,6 degrees warmer
>>> than
>>> the normal average. If this temperature level in Tromsø maintains
>>> through the winter, it will be a tangency of the record winter in
>>> 1929/1930.
>>>
>>> For Northern Norway as a whole the temperature in the winter months
>>> has been 5,1 degrees above the average with five more days to go. If
>>> this temperature maintains it will be the warmest winter ever, since
>>> the mesurements started in 1900/1901.
>>>
>>> The warm temperatures are caused by heavy low-pressure activity,
>>> which has brought a lot of mild and humid air to the region. The
>>> climate
>>> scientist believes that the region now is experiencing the start of
>>> a
>>> climate change with warmer winters. Estimates show that in the
>>> coming
>>> years up to 2100 there might be a temperature rise of 3 degrees
>>> Celsius in coastal areas, and up to five degrees in inland regions.
>>As Roger would say, Norway isn't the globe.
> Oh dear! This is *not* about Norway, Einstein. It's about the Arctic
> getting warmer - as predicted. Please try to keep up.
>

Looks like it's only about Norway to me.
Isn't that the bunch of alarmists who gave Gore a prize for junk
science?


Warmest Regards

Bonzo


". researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years."
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175