Posted on 02/03/2007 1:25:07 PM PST by nwrep
From a bygone era when reasoned scientific analysis held sway:
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NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE
WE still speak of "the Ice Age" as if it belonged to the remote geological past. Geologists have reached the conclusion that there were several ice ages. What is more, the last Ice Age, known as the Quaternary, is only about half over, despite our blistering Summers.
Very slowly, the great ice sheets in the Arctic and the Antarctic regions are melting and pouring their torrents into the ocean.
The earth must inevitably change its aspect and its climate.
How the change is slowly taking place and what the result will be has been considered by geologists, physicists, and meteorologists.
In the course of about 700,000 years, the glacial sheets that now cover the North and South poles have melted down to their present area of 6,000,000 square miles from 12,000,000 square miles in extent.
The earth is steadily getting warmer. As all the ice at the two poles melts, a stupendous volume of water will be released. Professor Edgeworth David of the University of Sydney conservatively estimates that the sea level will rise fifty feet.
Such floods are nothing new, as we see from the marine fossils found on the tops of the Rockies, Andes and other mountain ranges.
So within 30,000 to 40,000 years, there will be another deluge. Salt water will sweep over the continents, leaving only the higher lands dry. Holland will be inundated. Fish will swim in the Buckingham Palace. The desert of Sahara will be a great inland sea. Palms and alligators will flourish at the poles, as they did millions of years ago.
No one can tell what would happen if a new carboniferous era should follow the warming of the earth. Man is about as old as the present Ice Age. It is a question if he will survive it.
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It was one of the old prototypes I had when I worked on the others, I just uploaded it (and another one that isn't as flashy) today. :')
They should study the 2000 year old domesticated grape vines being discovered under the receding ice in GreenlandIs there a topic or other link on that?
Do you think Al had inventing Global Warming next on his "to do" list right after inventing the internet?
I forwarded this link to Rush. Maybe he'll see it.
BTW Did we have SUV's in 1932?
barbra ann
That includes planet earth, our sun and with it our Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and eventually the UNIVERSE.
So, whether you drive your cars and use all the fossil fuel the earth has to offer, or make a car that runs on water, and pollutant free, in the end it doesn't matter one iota.
I thought that since hollywood is telling us that we all can do little things that when they add up-they become real big things, so...
Why doesn't every American drop one ice cube into a stream or river near them, and we could fix this evil GW thing. School kids could get involved and make field trips out of it and stuff. One Cube at a Time-there is a song there somewhere.....
here are some:
http://www.historysociety.ca/bea.asp?subsection=fea&page=pas
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/North_American_exploration.htm
http://www.historicaldocuments.com/VoyagestoVinland.htm
So, the stories of "Vineland" weren't entirely myth.
So, 1000, not 2000 years?
I love the thought of burning bogus BS'er flesh in the morning!!!
the grapes were there for many centuries before the Vikings got there as the story goes.
[..New York Times was instrumental in exposing the Boss Tweed democratic political corruption machine operating..]
Ha. Now the New York times is instrumental in buring democratic political corruption. Times change.
If Obama wins, it will be an Obama nation.
It makes more sense, as flourescent bulbs DO use less power per lumen, and cell phone chargers DO continue to use over 95% of their rated power when not attached to a cellphone.
The enviro-weenies have prevented how many new power projects that could have eased our current shortfalls? Yet some folks try to use EXACTLY the same tactics to try and discredit the FEW reasonable compromises available.
Don't be a pawn of the radical scheisskopfs. THINK and then ACT. Don't knee-jerk that if they say it it MUST be wrong. There's a hint of sense in there sometimes.
Oh, and it's spelled farce.
North Slope Alaska, the NEW Florida. Buy beachfront property now. Hell, if it warms enough, I could plant an orchard of orange trees here in Michigan. Yoo hoo! Can't wait.
The BS of today is such BS that it is being laughed at even today. No need to wait for even a not-too-distant future!!
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