Nobody understands how our climate systems work nor can they predict them with any accuracy.
What we know factually is: * the earth has more co2 in the atmosphere than anytime in the last 20 million years * 10 of warmest years in modern times have occurred in the last 11 years * arctic and Antarctic ice is melting at unprecedented rates and accelerating. Ice that was measured at millions of years old is now melted. E.g., the northwest passage is open. It's getting warmer, period. Whether that will kill us in 5 years, 50 years, or 500 years is not known nor predictable. Given the rate of acceleration, I'd say we have about 50 years. Acceleration, like compound interest, is a concept that humans have never been able to grasp; I.e. try to visualize an apple doubling every day. A few weeks and things don't look worrisome on the apple front. A few months and things start looking pretty bad. Global warming looks to be accelerating like apples. Qed. On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions <ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/08/glaciers-mountains?intcmp=122 >> >> Meltwater from Asia's peaks is much less than previously estimated, but >> lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world >> remains a serious concern >> >> > > Italy, like most of Europe, is experiencing icy temperatures, with the > Venice lagoon freezing over for the first time in more than 20 years > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/feb/07/frozen-venice-in-pictures > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346637 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
