President Clinton received the following letter this week from John J. Gart of Chevy Chase.
"Dear Bill," Mr. Gart wrote. "The Washington Post (July 10, 1998, p. A2) paraphrased you, in discussing 'global climate,' as stating that 'the five warmest years recorded since the 1400s all occurred in the 1990s.' No doubt the right-wing crazies will challenge this assertion as incorrect.
"As a retired mathematical statistician with almost 40 years experience as university teacher and federal government researcher, I am prepared to analyze these 500 years of annual data and confirm your thesis.
"Send me these figures at once:
"As the early readings necessarily predate the European 'discovery' of the Western Hemisphere (1492), Australia (1606), and New Zealand (1642), please make it clear whether the temperatures recorded by the Aztecs, Incans, Australian aborigines, and Maoris are in centigrade or Fahrenheit or whatever."
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