Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Global warming

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When the year began with a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause was global warming.

As a Bostonian, I am afraid that the coming winter will -- like last winter -- be unusually short and devastatingly severe. At the beginning of 2005, a deadly ice storm knocked out power to thousands of people in New England and dropped a record-setting 42.2 inches of snow on Boston.

The conventional name of the month was January. Its real name is global warming.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/08/30/katrinas_real_name/

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How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age...

While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent years provided joke fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of Europe and the Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such climate change could produce for the northern hemisphere - a sudden shift into a new ice age.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm

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The vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet -- a 2-mile-thick wasteland of ice larger than Australia, drier than the Sahara and as cold as a Martian spring - - increased in mass every year between 1992 and 2003 due to additional annual snowfall, an analysis of satellite radar measurements showed.

The researchers based their conclusions on an analysis of 347 million radar altimeter measurements made by the European Space Agency's ERS-1 and ERS- 2 satellites between June 1992 and May 2003.

They determined that the ice cap appeared to be thickening at the rate of 1.8 centimeters every year. The ice is thinning in West Antarctica and other regions of the continent.

"The changes in the ice look like those expected for a warming world," said glaciologist Richard Alley at Pennsylvania State University.

"The new result in no way disproves global warming; if anything, the new result supports global warming."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/20/MNGS9CS5141.DTL&type=science

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3 comments:

  1. Global warming is going to reduce the size of the polar caps, create a 30% rise in the oceans, bury coastal regions as far in as 100 miles from the existing shore lines, and then freeze solid for 10,000 years.

    Well, because I said so. I'm credible. I heard it on "in Search Of" with Leonard Nemoy in 1979, and if you can't believe Nemoy, who can you believe?

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  2. I'll replace JIBBS as sidekick with anyone who can get me the complete series of ISO on DVD or VHS.

    In retrospect, it would be the funniest TV you could ever watch -- what a time capsule! Why isn't it on TV LAND?

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  3. oh man -- THAT made my day. I'd make PP my sidekick except that JIBBS is hard at work making sure that hurricane victims are able to contact their loved ones with assurance that they are OK, which rates at least two steps above cracking on ct on the "Christ lives within me" scale.

    Maybe only one.

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