> Be afraid... Be very afraid... Who is supposed to be afraid of anything? Everybody who is now on this planet will be deceased before the temperature varies a degree or two one way or the other. --- handsonmaui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since this topic seems to come up from time to time > I thought I would > post part of an article that I found very > interesting... > > From an article about penguins from CNN: > > http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/26/giant.penguin/index.html > > ------------ > The climate of the earth at that time was far > different from the icy > polar regions and the toastier, tropical middle > section we inhabit today. > > "The global average temperature was much higher than > at present," said > Clarke. "And there was relatively little difference > between the > temperatures at the poles and the equator," she > said. > > The Earth's first polar icecaps developed about 34 > million years ago, > after these two penguin species became extinct. > ----------- > > So if the earth is warmer... the ice caps melt and > temperature become > more moderate over the entire earth... yeah... I > guess that will mean > the end of civilization as we know it. > > Be afraid... Be very afraid... > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
