On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:04:35 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
wrote:
>Make credence recognised that on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:08:59 -0700,
>Hatunen has scripted:
>
>>On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:36:30 +0200, Doesn't Frequently Mop
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Make credence recognised that on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:38:51 -0700,
>>>Hatunen has scripted:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:25:15 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David
>>>>Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Mxsmanic wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > It's not that hot in Paris.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Temperatures exceed 90 and even 100 degrees F these days,
>>>>>
>>>>>Not most days, by a long shot.
>>>>>
>>>>>> whereas that was
>>>>>> unknown only a decade or two ago.
>>>>>
>>>>>Heatwaves were certainly known more than a decade ago.
>>>>
>>>>It appears the record for France was at Toulouse in 1923: 44.0C
>>>
>>>I don't think anyone would vouch for the accuracy of readings of that
>>>era.
>>
>>Why not? They had very precise thermometers in 1923.
>
>Perhaps they did, perhaps they didn't, perhaps they had left it
>sitting in the sun. It was a long time ago.
So when in your short lifetime did scientific measurements and records suddenly
become reliable? I take it that you don't believe in global warming since the
database used includes temperature measurements made long before 1923.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/12495/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
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Martin
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