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Please note that average height a mere hundred fifty years ago was a few centimetres shorter. The reversal of a trend (admittedly spurred by different causes) is notable. If you do wish to call a development a "non-story", please refute it with something more substantial than "the numbers don't look right to my programmer brain".


How about: the uncertainties in their extrapolation to 400 years beyond the present are probably greater than the changes they are predicting.


Sounds good to me. Thanks.




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