IN THIS, OUR TIME OF TROUBLE...:

North Atlantic Warming Tied To Natural Variability (ScienceDaily, Jan. 5, 2008)

A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean's surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In fact, the subpolar regions cooled at the same time that subtropical and tropical waters warmed.

This striking pattern can be explained largely by the influence of a natural and cyclical wind circulation pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), wrote authors of a study published Jan. 3, in Science Express, the online edition of the journal Science.

....we are lucky to have found one man, Nobel Laureate Al Gore, who can break wind.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 5, 2008 9:46 AM