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George Shirley wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>>> 30% humidity sounds like heaven. When we lived in Saudi Arabia we had
>>> humidity about 20-30% and loved it. Humidity here on the Gulf Coast
>>> is more likely to be 90 to 96% and only drops lower than that when it
>>> rains. We hide in the air conditioned house when it gets that hot and
>>> wet. Nearly everyone here has air conditioned cars and air
>>> conditioned houses. when I was a kid we had an attic fan and you
>>> finally cooled off about 2 am only to get heated up again by 9 am. My
>>> folks were one of the first families where we lived to get ac and
>>> they got it after I went in the Navy in 1957, along with central
>>> heat, a television, etc. Dad said it was because the grocery bill
>>> dropped $80 a month after I left home. I didn't believe him until my
>>> kids left home. Stay out of the hot and wet Edrena.

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>> You have been in UK haven't you George??
>>
>> Have you seen all the flooding in England just now. Places it has
>> never been before
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> Haven't really been paying attention Ophelia. We are in an era when our
> Little Ice Age seems to be warming up but that's cyclic. Should change
> again in another 300 years. <VBG>


Thing is, it's not just a cyclical thing. The current warming and
CO2 content are of the chart for where they've been in millions of
years.

Serene