'Mike' wrote:

"Larry Stoter" wrote in message
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alan.holmes wrote:

It's a right pain, this global warming, we only had three inches of snow
yesterday, and the temperature rose to 2 degrees!

Alan

Indeed, and, if you bother to investigate some of the details, you will
discover that an increase in the average global temperature by 2 deg C
could still end up with pack ice in the straights of Dover and icebergs
off Newcastle.

That is what an average means - with 4 to 5 deg increases in parts of
Africa, it is going to get colder in other places. The real problem is
it is impossible to predict what is going to happen where ......

Are you saying man has or will cause this or that man can prevent it? In
other words, is man involved here?


Anyway, with the total failure of the world's so-called leaders in
Copenhagen, you don't have anything to worry about - homo sapiens is
buggered without a doubt. Within 100 years, there will be unprecedented
climate change, unquestionably. My guess is that in climate terms, we in
the UK won't do too badly, apart from the 100 million people from
southern Europe and N Africa moving North. If we think immigration is a
problem now, wait until 2110, when half the population of Portugal,
Spain, Italy and France will have decided that the warm, wet UK is a
better bet than than the deserts of their own countries.

The same question applies again.


The only consolation I can see is that lareg parts of the southern USA,
especially Texas will be under water .....


and again the same question applies.



Personally, I don't care - I'll be dead long before then and have no
kids to worry about, so I'm going to keep generating CO2 and methane, to
help the rest of you.

Larry


But isn't that what the tree huggers are saying, that man CAN do something
about it?

Personally, I think there was a slim chance of stopping the worst
effects - caused by man, directly or indirectly, pumping CO2 and methane
into the atmosphere.

Our glorious leaders have, however, just completely blown it and future
generations are stuffed.

More generally, politicians are incapable of seeming beyond a 5 year
horizon. Which is why the Grand Banks cod fishery doesn't exist any more
and the Mediterranean/North Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery will cease to
be commercially viable within 5 years.

Larry