"A variety of species, from frogs to flowering plants, have demonstrated changed behavior in response to increasing world temperatures over the last few decades. According to the results of two studies published today in the journal Nature, these changes are not isolated events, but instead represent a worldwide pattern, or "fingerprint," of global warming."
Only a couple of paragraphs in that article, yet it does give a little bit more hard science than reports usually give. Interesting to read.
Of course, with Bush trying to sell off our forests and mine the plains into slag heaps and poison the rivers from the run off from mining and deforestation, he's turning American right like at home: Hell.
posted on January 5, 2003 02:13:45 PM new
Wish I knew something our country could do about this problem, short of firing the president! We all need to be reminded over and over that global warming is a reality.
posted on January 5, 2003 05:05:50 PM new
Roadsmith, just as soon as corporations start to complain that it's hurting their extra profits margins, that's when Bush will go into full action on combatting Global Warming. Everyone else in America and the world could die first from the effects of Global Warming and he wouldn't shed even a crocodile tear about it.
posted on January 6, 2003 12:27:51 PM new
Unfortunately, when it really starts to cut into corporate profits, it will be too late. The great CO2 regulators, the oceans, will start to warm. As long as they stayed cold, they absorbed CO2, when they warm, they release all that CO2 they have been storing. Which will cause them to warm even more, which will cause them to release even more CO2, which will cause them to warm even more...............
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posted on January 6, 2003 12:37:24 PM new
I do know that reading some early writings in the 1700's they grew citrus fruit up the Mississippi to Tennessee. There have been some fair sized clilite shifts within recorded history.
What is the negative line entry like for the corperate balance sheet from flooding all the coastal cities and half of the peninsula of Florida when the ice all melts?
Kinda rough on the islands and atols that will just be shoals.
posted on January 7, 2003 06:00:56 AM new What is the negative line entry like for the corperate balance sheet from flooding all the coastal cities and half of the peninsula of Florida when the ice all melts?
The positive is....
All that cheap Nevada desert they bought will now be prime beachfront property....
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[ edited by mlecher on Jan 7, 2003 06:02 AM ]
