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Post by irenetheserene on Jul 25, 2004 12:16:48 GMT -6
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Kiwi
Whooshite Candidate
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Post by Kiwi on Jul 25, 2004 21:03:13 GMT -6
I was okay with this article and believed some of it untill I came across this B.S. :
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If Ross’s Shelf were to slide into the ocean, it has been estimated that it would raise the entire world’s oceans by sixteen to twenty feet. And that, my friends, would change the world, as almost every coastal city in the world and many islands along with the county of Holland would be underwater. Perhaps it will take an event like this to wake up the world to become serious about Global Warming.
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It wouldn't sink any city or country. It would merely come up the shorline by 16 to 20 feet so unless the city is built directly on the shore it will not affect the city and twenty feet of water would not sink any country.
Climate changes are a very normal part of this planets evolution. Perhaps we are accelarating it a bit but we are not causing it to happen. It will happen. As for the shelfs of ice 'falling rapidly into the sea'; it only takes a one degree temp change to melt ice. If water above 0'c. hits an ice chunk it will melt it. Also it will have a domino effect on other shelves.
Frankly there is nothing we can do to 'fix' this problem. The only thing we can do is learn to adapt and brace for what ever mother nature has in store for us. Sure, everyone could ditch thier cars, busses, trains, airplanes, etc and pick up bikes; we could trade in thier electricity for candle power and board games; we could stop using fertilizers and let half of the worlds population starve, all of these things would practicaly stop polutions from entering the emviroment. Oh wait, we would have to stop burning things too so sorry, no candles or fires to keep you warm. Did you know fires (in fireplaces, camping fires, etc) actualy pollute the atmosphere immensly? We would have to live like the native peoples but with out the fires for light, warmth and food preparation and still have to deal with an impending 'ice age'. What kind of life is that. I like my computer, my freedom to travel quickly, my tv, my cooked food, my airconditiond and heated house, my easily grown food, etc.
We will adapt, the earth will adapt, we will pull through and the earth will pull through. Mother nature has been through this countless times before and she is strong enough to get through it again.
It you are scared then start living like a native american with no fire.
Thank you,
Kiwi
**kiwi gets off the soapbox and gives it to the next person**
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