Re: Greenhouse effect

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2001.09.11 at 15:36:24(7451) Posterity - ice in a glass of water? Antarctica, bigger than lil' ole Americkee, ice half a mile thick, and "the rest of the other snow"? Melted? Atlantis? Armeggedon? Is the 1 degree global increase just natural? Countless millions of square miles of Nature, history, culture, drowned? Global Climate changes? Jungle gone? Blinding ultraviolet? Searing infra-red? Fires everywhere Super-Hurricanes, Unimaginable Monsoons, Mountain landslides? Just for start? Desert, Man's dessert? What will happen tothe Spirit of Man when all the (Great) Beasts have gone? (Chief Seattle) Cultural, social, economic breakdown? Plague, Pestilence, Violence, War? Just, a glass of water in poor Man's mighty Mansion? Global Environmental Quality Control? Keep Arks with armed guards, exit tablets ready? Posterity - ice in a glass of water? Nah, just a lot of rubbish, why should we worry! Its all scaremongering on the Tele, propaganda to give us something to think about Nature can look after itself, always has. I'll just have the things I want. Ron O'Stritch +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:38 AM Subject: Re: Greenhouse effect > All this and also consider the drastic climate change we will experience > should things warm up enough to melt ice caps. Coastal flooding will be the > least of the problems. > Donna > > << Missed the first few messages but if youre actually debating the concept > of > flooding from global warming remember general chemistry. > Put your ice water in an accurate beaker and then melt it and measure its > volume again. Warm water has a higher volume than cold and it is not so much > the melting of the ice that will be a problem but the several degree change > in water temperature resulting in a higher volume, hence flooding! Multiply > your beaker by several hundred billion and that should give a slighy > estimate > of what were facing. > >> >

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