[pct-l] global warming???

[reynolds@iLAN.com (Reynolds, WT)]

Well I was in the 6th grade when I learned that the world was warming and
Canada was going to inherit our New Jersey weather within 100 years. That
was 50 years ago.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brick Robbins [mailto:brick@fastpack.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:51 AM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] global warming???


At 11:31 AM 6/4/02, JoAnn M Michael wrote:
>You realize of course, that if only those lustrous scientists (?) had been
around during the Ice Age they would have tried to stop the cooling so as to
'save' the planet. If they had, we'd have no, let me see now...Continental
Divide?? 

There is little dissension among the folks that study this stuff that Global
Warming IS happening, despite Rush Limbaugh making fun of the concept every
time a cold day hits NYC.

There is still some argument whether it the trend is natural like the end of
the last Ice Age, or is man-made. HOWEVER it looks like this warming trend
is happening many times faster than any others in the geologic record.
Combine that with the recent increase in CO2, and that makes kind of a
smoking gun. IMHO a progress towards hydrogen based fuel systems (Thank you
Strider ) where the only waste is water, makes lots of sense. Whether we
reduce our CO2 emissions to try to reverse the Warming trend, or just to
keep from fouling our own nests, it still seem like a good idea. Industry
fought the concept of not fouling our waterways and our air. They will fight
CO2 reduction. In the long run it will happen.

Whether natural, or man made, we are going to need to deal with Global
Warming.

One misconception is that there will be a uniform temperature rise. 

This will NOT happen. As the energy in the atmosphere increases (i.e. the
temp rises) the weather will become more extreme with increased instability
in the weather patters. This may mean hotter summers, colder winters, drier
droughts, wetter floods, and more frequent and more severe storms.

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Brick Robbins                       mailto:brick@fastpack.com

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