Re: coral reefs dying out

"p62c61" <p62c61@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998
> as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of
> reference, then temperatures have plateaued.

  Ahahahaahah.. 4 years ay?

  If you take the middle of summer as your starting reference and the
middle 
of winter as your ending reference then the cooling is even more dramatic.

  I find it constantly astoni****ng how KKKonservatives will use any
childish 
argument to lie to others and to themselves.



Here are the global average temperatures since 1958. "o" = trend line.

Look at all those "o"'s lined up there. The trend is up, Up, UP.

And most recently the rate of increase is about 2'C per century.

View with mono spaced font.

 1958  14.08 *******o***************
 1959  14.06 ********o************
 1960  13.99 *********o******
 1961  14.08 **********o************
 1962  14.04 ***********o********
 1963  14.08 ************o**********
 1964  13.79 **===========o
 1965  13.89 *********====o
 1966  13.97 **************o
 1967  14.00 ***************o*
 1968  13.96 **************==o
 1969  14.08 *****************o*****
 1970  14.03 ******************o
 1971  13.90 **********=========o
 1972  14.00 *****************===o
 1973  14.14 ********************o******
 1974  13.92 ***********==========o
 1975  13.95 *************=========o
 1976  13.84 ******=================o
 1977  14.13 ************************o*
 1978  14.02 ******************=======o
 1979  14.09 ***********************===o
 1980  14.18 ***************************o**
 1981  14.27 ****************************o*******
 1982  14.05 ********************========o
 1983  14.26 *****************************o*****
 1984  14.09 ***********************=======o
 1985  14.06 *********************==========o
 1986  14.13 **************************======o
 1987  14.27 *********************************o**
 1988  14.31 **********************************o****
 1989  14.19 ******************************=====o
 1990  14.38 ************************************o*******
 1991  14.35 ************************************o****
 1992  14.12 *************************============o
 1993  14.14 ****************************===========o
 1994  14.24 **********************************=====o
 1995  14.38 ****************************************o***
 1996  14.30 **************************************===o
 1997  14.40 ******************************************o**
 1998  14.57 *******************************************o*************
 1999  14.33 ****************************************===o
 2000  14.33 ****************************************====o
 2001  14.48 *********************************************o*****
 2002  14.56 **********************************************o*********
 2003  14.55 ***********************************************o*******
 2004  14.49 ************************************************o**
 2005  14.62 *************************************************o**********
 2006  14.54 **************************************************o****
 2007  14.57 ***************************************************o*****
------------------------------------------->  Temperature

Correlation Coefficient  .8529209

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VMu14mBXAs