"golddog" wrote in message
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djay Wrote:
"Thornhill" wrote in message
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Persephone wrote:
...or *something*!
Global warming will actually make winters colder. Rising temperatures
will melt the ice caps, releasing fresh water into the ocean. This
will
decrease the strength of the gulf stream, which is what brings warm
air
from the equator up to the northern hemisphere during the winter. New
England and Europe are going to be hardest hit. In general, global
warming makes everything more extreme.
Here in Philadelphia, December was fairly cold, but this January,
temperatures have often been in the 50s, and it seems to make it to
60
once a week. My tulips and daffodils have already started coming up.
I love gardening too and have to laugh sometimes at the unscientific
posts
that occur here at times. Some type of "global warming" caused the
last
great ice age to recede too. How the heck did that happen? AND was it
a
bad thing?
It wouldn't be such a concern if the 'warming' (melting) isn't taking
place in the short time frame. Actually the Industrial Revolution's
emergence and the large melting coincide. Ask the two right wing
Senators from Alaska what they think of global warming. They have a
front row seat. To ask for more proof is not fair, as virtually all
scientists agree on this one. Plus Google will turn up vast amounts of
data to confirm.
Certain individuals believe (consciously or not) that to acknowledge global
warming is equivalent to offending two institutions which they revere more
than Catholics revere the pope: The oil and automobile industries. And,
let's not forget that they'd also have to kick the jambs out from under our
entire belief system, which says we have a god-given right to own any car we
like, no matter how stupid it might be, and to hell with the consequences.