We welcome everyone - even Neanderthals! > > You live in a most interesting world. Do they require visa's > for entry? > > Bob W wrote: > > Not here in Greenwich - it's the original Garden of Eden, and > > Birthplace of Man. Even at the most extreme time of the Ice Age, > > Greenwich Park and the area for a mile around it was a haven of > > temperate climate, with apple trees, sweet chestnuts in abundance, > > lions lying down with lambs, and so much milk and honey the local > > Cro-Magnons had to wear green wellies to keep their toes dry. > > > > > > > >> Apparently even the parts of Britain that were not covered > with ice > >> were unfit for Human habitation up until about 10,000 years ago > >> > >> Bob W wrote: > >> > >>> I'd have been ok. The ice sheet that covered most of > >>> > >> Britain stopped > >> > >>> about > >>> 15 miles north of here, in Finchley. > >>> > >>> Bob > >>> > >>> > >>>> Marnie, > >>>> If it hadn't been for the glaciers retreating, my 1/4 > acre here in > >>>> Chicago would be under 1,000 feet of ice. Somitmes change > >>>> > >> is good to > >> > >>>> us, sometimes not so much. Just ask the dinosaurs... > >>>> Regards, Bob S. > >>>> > >>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> In a message dated 8/16/2009 1:13:29 A.M. Pacific > Daylight Time, > >>>>> [email protected] writes: > >>>>> > >>>>> What have the glaciers ever done for us? > >>>>> > >>>>> With all these glaciers melting I'm hoping one day someone > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> will find > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> a frozen Neanderthal - that would almost make it worthwhile. > >>>>> > >>>>> Bob > >>>>> > >>>>> ============== > >>>>> Oceans warm up as glaciers disappear. As oceans warm > up, the air > >>>>> warms, and there is more climate change. As there is > >>>>> > >> more climate > >> > >>>>> change some places get hotter, dryer, and some get > >>>>> > >> wetter, colder. > >> > >>>>> Too many degrees of change in one direction or another > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> leads to deforestation and desertification. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Too much change leads to areas that were once arable > >>>>> > >> becoming less > >> > >>>>> arable or unarable. The end result is they are fewer areas > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> that can > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> grow food. Less food for the world's population. > >>>>> > >>>>> But I presume you actually know all that. Or my drastic > >>>>> simplification of it. > >>>>> > >>>>> Marnie aka Doe :-) > >>>>> > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > > > -- > > > The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either > eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he > does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a > damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more > than a dog. > > --G. K. Chesterton > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions.
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