Reply #2: In a related vein

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There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years, enough to melt all the ice on the
planet and submerge cities like London, New York and New Orleans, Sir David King, the government's
chief scientific adviser has warned. Speaking on his return from Moscow, where he has been acting as
the prime minister's "unofficial envoy" to persuade the Russians to ratify the Kyoto protocol to fight
climate change, Sir David said the most recent science bore out the worst predictions.

An ice core 3km deep from the Antarctic had a record of the climate for 800,000 years and showed the
direct relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and warm and cold periods
for the planet.

Critical in climate records is the quantity of ice at the poles and in glaciers. Records show that at the
peak of the ice age 12,000 years ago, the sea was 150 metres below where it is now. "You might think
it is not wise, since we are currently melting ice so fast, to have built our big cities on the edge of the
sea where it is now obvious they cannot remain.

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Records of the 3km deep Antarctic ice core showed that during ice ages the carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere was around 200 parts per million (ppm), and during warm periods reached around 270
ppm, before sinking back down again for another ice age. That pattern had been repeated many times
in that period but had now been broken because of the intervention of man. Carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere had reached 360 ppm in the 1990s and now was up to 379 ppm and increasing at the rate
of 3 ppm a year - reaching a level not seen for 55m years when there was no ice on the planet because
the atmosphere was too warm."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1260750,00.html

Meanwhile back here at the ranch, Alfred E. Neumann aka Junior has taken the position, "Global Warming? What me worry, Nah." Like he told Woodward "History, who cares we'll all be dead."