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Yet more evidence

In Reply to: Habit and evolution. posted by Gideon Hallett on March 09, 1999 at 16:10:24:

: : I'm too busy to look up the exact source but the main onus of any global warming occurs in northern climes, during winter nights. Let's say jumping from a mean of 0 to 10F. Quite a statistical jump but irrelevant given its location.

: If I might cite the EDF's response to this question:

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"Warming over the past century has occurred both during the day and at night, but night-time warming has been the greater of the two. The buildup of the haze of particles from combustion discussed above has probably contributed to this asymmetric warming. But as warming continues, the tendency toward night-time warming is expected to diminish, in part because the slow heating of the oceans causes a uniform atmospheric warming over time. In any event, night-time warming would be experienced by society and ecosystems differently than daytime warming, but may be no less problematic. For example, the northward spread of certain infectious diseases is currently limited by cold night-time temperatures."

It appears to be happening all over the place, too. I had a link to Antarctic global warming (apparently Antarctica is losing chunks of ice the size of Delaware), but I lost it...

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