...or not.

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[b]Antarctic cools in warmer world[/b]
[url]http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/14/wtemp14.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/01/14/ixworld.html[/url]

"[b]The Antarctic has cooled during the past 35 years[/b] despite the worldwide temperature rise, according to a study published today.

The temperature decrease is most pronounced in
summer and autumn. [b]Continental cooling... poses challenges to models of climate and ecosystem change.[/b]

[b]A drop in Antarctic temperatures is a puzzle because most climate models suggest that polar regions should respond first and most rapidly to worldwide temperature changes.[/b]

[b]Previous claims that the Antarctic is warming may have been skewed...[/b]

[b]"The findings could prove to be headache for climate change modellers"[/b] (Dr Peter Doran, of the University of Illinois at Chicago),  added.

[b]...widespread cooling is a bit of a conundrum that the models need to start to account for[/b]," he said.

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Is there any doubt that climatologists have absolutely NO IDEA what is happening to Earth's climate!?

And yet we want to radically alter the entire economy of Western civilization (via Kyoto Treaty) based on this "science".  PHOOOWEE!!