I'd have been ok. The ice sheet that covered most of Britain stopped about 15 miles north of here, in Finchley.
Bob > > Marnie, > If it hadn't been for the glaciers retreating, my 1/4 acre > here in Chicago would be under 1,000 feet of ice. Somitmes > change is good to us, sometimes not so much. Just ask the > dinosaurs... > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, <eactiv...@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 8/16/2009 1:13:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > > p...@web-options.com writes: > > > > What have the glaciers ever done for us? > > > > With all these glaciers melting I'm hoping one day someone > will find > > a frozen Neanderthal - that would almost make it worthwhile. > > > > Bob > > > > ============== > > Oceans warm up as glaciers disappear. As oceans warm up, the air > > warms, and there is more climate change. As there is more climate > > change some places get hotter, dryer, and some get wetter, colder. > > Too many degrees of change in one direction or another > leads to deforestation and desertification. > > Too much change leads to areas that were once arable becoming less > > arable or unarable. The end result is they are fewer areas > that can > > grow food. Less food for the world's population. > > > > But I presume you actually know all that. Or my drastic > > simplification of it. > > > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used > > when we created them. Albert Einstein > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
