Mike,
Look at the positive side of this for our hobby and business...
With Global Warming (that some doubt) the Arctic will have less ice,
and our grass and farmlands lands will become deserts. Just imagine
all the new meteorites that will become exposed and available to us
collectors.
And the prices will go down, too.
But all of these benefits will be far outweighed by the economic
impact
of Global Warming that the Republican "Bushites" doubt. A natural
cycle, some say, but look at the ice in the Arctic that
environmental
scientists are coring. It certainly shows a vastly greater
increase in
carbon dioxide emissions over the last 150 years that corresponds
directly to human activity during our Industrial Revolution. The
greatest increase in 900,000 years. And just think, 600,000
years ago
Yellowstone caldera supervolcano erupted, a brief yet catastrophic
event for the entire earth. It's overall impact was small
compared to
what we are doing now.
But back to meteorites... The prices will drop as more are
found due
to the melting of Arctic ice, desertfication of our grass and
farmlands... But the question is... Who will buy them once the
economic
crunch of Global Warming hits our pocket books?
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
-- Michael Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steve, not likely in our lifetimes, the money that
could have been spent going back to the moon, building
a permant base, then going to Mars, all of it could
have been done with the money we have pissed away in
Iraq. But hey, look at it this way, Haliburton moved
to Dubai to be closer to the money, they are taking
good care of it for us, the taxpayers.
Enough of things that do not pertain to meteorites
though, we have all had our say and I will leave this
topic since I have a meteorite show to attend and then
meteorites to dig up in the Arctic.
Michael Farmer
--- Steve Schoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So true Mike Farmer. That is the problem with our
age. We want
everything never taking into consideration what we
leave those that
follow us after we are dead and gone.
They will curse us or thank us for what we do now.
But to do nothing about global warming now, which is
a scientifically
proven fact, pretty much leaves them with a ruined
world and a curse
for us.
(Maybe by then they will have left this planet to
terraform Mars, and
mine asteroids (parent bodies of the meteorites we
love) for their
resources, all the while looking out into space or
up into a Martian
sky at a bright star that was the world we ruined.)
Steve Schoner.
#4470
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Sun Jun 10 13:25:59 EDT 2007
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Paul, ok, lest say you are the proud winner of that
bet! Bush got his way, America refused to do it's
part
and the oceans only raise 4 feet in the next 10
years.
I guess you had better go to Florida/New York
City/Boston, most of the Gulf Coast, and well, most
of
the Island nations in the Pacific. They will be
gone,
good job! Oh, and the Billionairs on Long Island and
Cape Cod had better sell their homes now, since a 4
foot rise in sealevel will wash them all away. What
will Dubya do without the family compound in
Kennebunkport?
I lived in Key West Florida. The highest point of
the
island is 6 feet. Most of the island is less than 3
feet above sea level, as is a very large part of
Florida. Kiss it goodbye, and trillions of $$$ of
land, homes, and a huge part of our nation.
Does that make it ok to ignore the melting glaciers,
ok to do what we are doing now and not even bother
making changes? That is SICK!
Unfortunately that is the mentality of a huge part
of
our nation today, all about me, my money, and today,
screw tomorrow, and I gues screw our children, and
grandchildren, they can learn to live in the crappy
world we created today to get "ours" right?
My kids (If I ever have any) will likely never see a
glacier in Switzerland, a Polar bear in northern
Canada, or a white Greenland. It is all going away.
sort of makes me not want to have kids, so they will
not have to suffer for our mistakes.
Michael Farmer
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