[Gllug] Hello from Cape Town

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 24 Jul 2007, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>Christopher Hunter wrote:
>>There are no real "global warming issues".  The observed pattern of
>>weather change is no different to the ones that happen in (roughly) 150
>>year cycles.  
>My best friend's wife's parents live there, as did many of her 
>relatives and ancestors before her.  His wife's maiden name is Tromsdal.
>Last year, for the first year that any of them can recall, or have heard 
>about, they didn't have a white Christmas.

Uh - anecdotal evidence is no better merely because it happens to be
aligned with the science. You wouldn't accept "It's unusually cold
_here_, global warming must be rubbish"; nor should you accept "It's
unusually warm here, ..."

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