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	Global Cooling?

ericskiff

1-19-2007 3:54 AM

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global warming, climate change, science, weather, climate, ecology

ericskiff says:

Jeff Masters of Wunderground sums up the cooling trend seen in the stratosphere and why it reaffirms the evidence that the current warming here at the surface is man-made.

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1-19-2007 9:25 AM

geeknoob

Hmm...
So I guess we all really need to stop breathing and farting. Well, maybe we don't have to stop breathing entirely, I mean, just the whole exhaling thing seems to be the issue. Inhaling should be fine though...

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