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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-26-06 12:35 AM
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2. It's too late to stop it. Ten or twenty years ago it was still time...
Edited on Sun Mar-26-06 12:55 AM by Amonester
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2006/02/26/news/opinion/opin820.txt
"Pat Zimmerman is a conservative fellow. I'm not talking about politics. I have no idea what his politics are ... or his religion. I'm talking about science. He's no Cassandra. He makes no exaggerated speculations.

Pat is a professor of atmospheric science at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. We meet about every six months so that he can teach me about global warming. He's patient with me. He starts out slow. But invariably he forgets who he's talking to and by the time our main course arrives, I am lost in the chemistry of the greenhouse effect, the calculus of ocean currents and the elaborate ecological feedbacks of this complex problem.

We had lunch last Tuesday, and Pat Zimmerman was different than I had ever seen him before."

...<

"The news of the last year hasn't been good. Last week a research group in Greenland announced that the glacial ice sheets that cover that arctic nation are melting and slipping into the ocean at a rate much faster than scientists had predicted even a year ago ... same news from Antarctica."

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http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2006/02/26/news/opinion/opin820.txt


President Al Gore's legitimate election could have been the last chance to stop it.... The war criminals f**ked up on it (and that guy voted for these crooks? Impossible to know for sure, but...) :grr:

Now what? Adapt?

What should we do now? Make "plans" to "adapt" and "try" to "save" (rescue?) hundreds of millions people (who will have to "move" to "higher" grounds?)

What's gonna happen to the food chain (crops, endangered species, all that stuff), and what can be done to "secure" enough for everybody? What's to do with decaying clean water sources? (BIG question... Which nation "owns" it?)

How many "new" levees should be built (and where, at what cost?) :cry:
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