On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:46:04 +0000, Nico Coesel wrote:
> Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:45:29 GMT, the renowned mzenier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mark
>>Zenier) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <l6Wd****41LtTeEPcRVn-rQ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>Chuck Harris <cf-NO-SPAM-harris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>Mark Jones wrote:
>>>>> What doesn't make sense is the last few thousand years of the
graph. It
>>>>> clearly should have started going into a colder period, but instead
the
>>>>> global temperature has stayed almost constant. So what we perceive
as
>>>>> being "no change" in global warming might actually be a "big deal."
>>>>>
>>>>> Disclaimer: I'm no climatologist. :)
>>>>
>>>>If you are going to blame humans, that glitch better have started in
the
>>>>last 100-200 years. 800 years ago, humans were insignificant
producers of
>>>>greenhouse g*****.
>>>
>>>No. The deviation from the expected trends started with large scale
>>>rice cultivation in Asia about 4-6000 years ago. Rice paddies are good
>>>sources of methane and CO2.
>>>
>>>>We still are, but we are making much more now than we
>>>>were prior to the industrial revolution. The active volcanoes are
making
>>>>way more than we ever could.
>>>
>>>Mt. St. Helens produces only as much S02 as the local coal fired
>>>power plant did before they installed latest set of scrubbers.
>>>(Western Wa****ngton coal is pretty nasty stuff, though).
>>>
>>>Mark Zenier mzenier@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wa****ngton State resident
>>
>>On the plus side, the Arctic is probably going to become fully
>>navigable year-round in the next century or two, eventually removing
>>the need to rely on those big nuclear-powered Russian icebreakers to
>>get ****pping through. Bypassing the Panama Canal will link Europe to
>>Asia much more closely (40% less distance). Assuming the latter isn't
>>washed into the sea, that is.
>
> I've got a great idea to get rid of extra water: pump it on top of the
> Himalaya mountains, it will stay there as ice. Problem solved.
What extra water? The Northern ice cap is floating.
--
Keith
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