OFF: FLOODS ARE COMING

[Michael W Blackman]

No - it's my intuition you see

less refried beans - less methane gas - less green house effect

Well - i've had a productive day - indeed

Tally Hooooooooo

Mb

----- Original Message -----
From: Layla Thompson <lthompson3 at UCLAN.AC.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: FLOODS ARE COMING


> you lot all seem to be very knowledgeable on this stuff.
>
> Congrats to you! (Unless of course you're just copying from the
internet!!!)
>
>
> Layla.
>
> >>> m.jermy at CRANFIELD.AC.UK 03/30/01 09:46am >>>
> Robert C. Mayo wrote:
> >remember the ice age? well, i don't really mean to ask if you remember
> >it...but let's start there...
>
> >what melted all that ice? global warming, to be sure...but certainly not
> such
> >caused by polution/greenhouse gasses. it was (is) a natural cycle of
> climate
> >change, yes? continuing as we speak.
> Correct in as much as there is a natural and an anthropomorphic (Latin,
'the
> fault of the George Bush' ;-) ) global warming effect, and the two add
> together. We may be experiencing natural warming, but do we wish to
> accelerate the process?
>
> Besides which, if even there was no anthropomorphic greenhouse effect, if
we
> continue to rely on fossil fuel we will run out. Maybe not in our
lifetimes,
> but what about our children's lifetimes?
>
> Academic and industrial opinion is rapidly approaching a concensus that
> using hydrogen as a way of transporting energy is the best solution. You
can
> generate it in many ways, from fossil or renewable energy sources, you can
> use it in a number of ways, and the wast product is water.
>
> >and even if it were true that the ice caps will melt, etc, why would that
> >cause flooding, necessarily? when the ice in a glass of icewater
melts,the
> >glass doesn't overflow; the 'new' water takes up (nearly) the same space
as
> >the ice that it used to be...did.
>
> Why does ice float? Because it's less dense than water. Floating ice (e.g.
> the Arctic and the coast of Antarctica) may not raise much water above sea
> level, but ice on land masses does (e.g. Antarctica, Greenland, northern
> Eurasia and America). Melt the ice, return it to the sea, raise the sea
> level. Plus there is the thermal expansion of water. Heat the oceans,
expand
> the sea.
>
> Mark
>