Andy Johnson wrote:
>
> The rest of the world watches us with alarm.
>
> Call it global warming, call it what you will,
> there is definitely some serious climatic change
> underway which is due in part to fossil fuel consumption.
>
> Idiot boy Bush denies global warming.
>
> Idiot boy Bush refuses to cooperate with the rest of the
> world, alarms the rest of the world, insults the rest of
> the world, as the world attempts to deal with global warming
> and run-away fossil fuel consumption.
My reply,
Idiot? Not from the capitalist perspective. The Artic Ocean is
RAPIDLY turning from ice to vast stretches of open water. Note the
satellite photograph of the North Pole taken in Sept 1979 and the same
view photographed in Sept 2004. That means cargo ships can now go
across the top of the world above Canada from the North Pacific to the
North Atlantic. Imagine how much that reduces shipping costs of oil
from Alaska's North Slope to the Eastern United States and Europe for
example. And how about shipments of all kinds from China and Japan to
Europe and the Eastern United States going across northern Canada. Get
out a globe and measure the distances for yourself should you doubt what
I am saying.
for the cause,
Klo
>
> The world looks to the U.S. for leadership on this issue
> and we offer selfish short-sighted policies, not leadership.
>
> Worrisome!
>
> How Global Warming Can Lead to a Big Chill
>
> Fri Dec 3, 6:46 PM ET Science - Reuters
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming (news - web sites) could lead
> to a big chill in the North Atlantic, at least if history is anything
> to go by, researchers reported on Friday.
>
> AP Photo
> Slideshow: Climate Change Issues
>
>
>
> They published evidence to support a popular theory that rising
> temperatures caused a big melt of polar ice 8,200 years ago, causing
> a freshwater flood into the salty North Atlantic.
>
> This would have changed the flow of the balmy Gulf Stream and in just
> a few years, average temperatures plummeted, ushering in a deep
> freeze that lasted a century or more, researchers have proposed.
>
> Writing in the Dec. 11 issue of Geophysical Research Letters,
> Torbjorn Tornqvist, an assistant professor of earth and environmental
> sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, says he has
> evidence that this happened.
>
> "Few would argue it's the most dramatic climate change in the last
> 10,000 years," Tornqvist said in a statement. "We're now able to show
> the first sea-level record that corresponds to that event."
>
> Tornqvist and some graduate students found the evidence along the
> Gulf of Mexico off the southern U.S. coast.
>
> They found peat deposits that would have been formed under rising sea
> levels. Working with researchers in the Netherlands, they dated the
> material to 8,200 years ago.
>
> Their composition suggested they were made when a saltwater marsh was
> abruptly flooded and turned into a lagoon.
>
> "Climatologists urgently need this type of information to run their
> climate models in order to understand the conditions that can produce
> such an abrupt climate change," Tonrqvist said.
>
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