<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Linking local events probably isn't conscious cherry-picking, but something like how some believe the full moon causes all kinds of crazy behavior: some are likely to just link drought or forest fires or a hot summer to global warming than to step back and see this might just be a local or regional phenomenon with little to tell us about long term climate trends.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Regards,</SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN>I was in Oklahoma City for part of the every day over a hundred.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>No different than summers when I was a kid in Nebraska. There</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>has always been hot/cold dry/wet heavy snow/light snow extremes</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>having nothing to do with any long term climate change. Its the</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>cherry picking festival that happens when local events support</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>a theory which overall has no substantiated modeling behind it,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>is data poor and unable to make correct predictions.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Missouri has had 8 cool or cold winters in a row with six cool</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>summer, half of one </SPAN><SPAN>warm summer, and one summer with a hot </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>streak similar to </SPAN><SPAN>those common in the 1970's. Now we are having</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>a cool late summer following the short hot streak of this year.</SPAN></DIV>
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