Re: OT: Wild Weather

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Jones <abuse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
(in <yeCdnWZ659r3TUPcRVn-tw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>) about 'OT: Wild
Weather', on Fri, 7 Jan 2005:
> What doesn't make sense is the last few thousand years of the graph. It 
>clearly should have started going into a colder period, but instead the 
>global temperature has stayed almost constant. So what we perceive as 
>being "no change" in global warming might actually be a "big deal."
>
> Disclaimer: I'm no climatologist. :)

Who is? But the Milankovic cycle is quite irregular (at least three
uncorrelated periods - almost as bad as audio!), and it *seems to me*
not to be very well quantified (odd for a near-Earth astronomical
effect), so it *seems to me* to be difficult to be sure exactly what we
should 'expect'. For example, are we in an interglacial or has the
latest glaciation cycle ended, so that we should expect several million
years with no ice ages? 
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