aside: You seem to be conversing with yourself here. Are you replying to emails on the list?
The range of tropical storm activity may well increase. The first hurricane in recorded history struck the Brasilian coast two years ago. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/02apr_hurricane.htm Your assumptions about what climate change means are simply assumptions. The idea that a gradual shift to slightly more pleasant climates in the high latitudes and slightly less pleasant in the low latitudes differs considerably from the consensus. On the whole, the ground will be drier, the seasonality of water supplies will be shifted toward winter, decreasing agricultural productivity; the proportion of rainfall from severe events will increase causing greater flood and wind damage; sea levels will rise stressing not only land use but water supplies for a vast coastal populations, and already stressed ecosystems will lose many species and possibly go into sufficient decline as to impact human well-being (c.f., Louisiana). These are the most likely outcomes; other known risks exist and unknown ones might as well. All of this shows no signs of doing anything but accelerating under foreseeable policies, I am sorry, your whole premise was worked to death ten years ago. I wish it were true but it isn't true. Nobody is losing sleep over the prospect that Brighton will be more like Malaga. mt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
