Time for me to finally lose the weight. Being fat AND hot is not a good combination.
* breaks out topo maps * and time to start searching for that new ocean front property. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > So...whether you think people are causing it 100% or not...it looks > like in the near future we are going to be in some serious trouble. > > http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/842364 > > "The news is bad, and it's coming in fast. > > Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two > decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, > because it takes time to gather the data -- even to build the > equipment with which you gather the data. But slowly the flow of data > will grow, and at the end of 20 years you can expect major new > insights every month or so. > > That's where we are now with climate change. > > September's unwelcome news, from the Hadley Centre for Climate > Prediction and Research in Britain, was that if fossil fuel use > continues on the present trend line, the planet will be an average of > four degrees Celsius warmer by the 2060s. This contrasts with the > prediction of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published > in 2007, that we might see 4C, at the most, by 2100. > > This month's bad news came from the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution > (Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling), which > brought up cores from the ocean bottom containing sediments dating > back 20 million years. The news was that when the carbon dioxide in > the atmosphere was last at 450 parts per million (ppm), the average > global temperature was three to six degrees Celsius hotter than now, > and the sea level was 25-40 metres (80-130 feet) higher. > > That is bad news because 450 parts per million is where we are hoping > to halt the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere this time around. (We are > currently at 390 ppm.) All the world's major governments have agreed > in principle that the warming must never be allowed to exceed 2C, > because beyond that we risk runaway warming -- and it was thought that > 450 ppm would let us stop at that point. > > Not so, it would appear, or at least not for long." > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
