re: #49 Walter L. Newton
I don’t know about trends. I just assumed that we have had global warming (or cooling). How could one part of the planet warm enough to cause massive glaciers to melt in one place, and 6 thousand miles away, the temperature is doing something just the opposite.
I know know the answer, that’s why I asked. Are you telling me there is data about a warming trend in the Himalayas and data about a cooling trend in North America?
Why is it when I ask an question about any of the AGW stuff, I get a lot of defensive replies?
My reply to that sort of thing is, why does it matter if its a trend or man-caused? We should be doing common sense anyway like recycling and compost and using public transit and moving to nuclear and the like supplementing our power grid with solar/wind. It’s not all hippy crap!