On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:36:40 -0400, Force Majeure
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>Blackwater <bw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:05:45 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
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>> >On 17 Jul, 01:19, c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> In article
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> Robert
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>> >> > On 16 Jul, 02:13, =A7=A7 KR=A5K=A5T =A7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:55:30 -0700 (PDT), Robert S
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>> >> > > <roberts2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> > > >On Jul 15, 7:51 pm, abelard <abela...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> > > >Slight warming is unequivocal. The pro****tion, or lack thereof,
caused
>> >> > > >by man is very much equivocal.
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>> >> > > >How's the Sun doing now? We might be in for a new mini ice age.
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>> >> > > That would be kewel! :)
>> >>
>> >> > Climate is constantly changing, and has been for hundreds of
millions
>> >> > of years empirically. But changing about an equilibrium point.
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>> >> > Yet, miraculously, the present climate is apparently nirvana,
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>> >> In fact it is, in the sense that both the biota and human cultures
>> >> are adapted to the current climate.
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>> >What was the average temperature over the time period in which
>> >humanity evolved? I'll wager quiet different from what it is right
>> >now, purely from a statical point of view.
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>> Since the climate is never "settled", you can pick most ANY
>> instant in time and 'prove' that todays situation is unique
>> and 'abnormal'. How'd the man phrase it ... "Lies, damned
>> lies - and statistics" ? :-)
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>> >> > and any deviation from it will be disastrous.
>> >>
>> >> And because both the biota and human cultures are
>> >> adapted to the current climate, then deviations
>> >> do in fact have the potential to be disasterous.
>> >>
>> >> If the current average global temperature were five degrees
>> >> warmer -- or cooler -- then the same arguments
>> >> would apply.
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>> >Humanity lives in deserts and in tundra and everywhere in between.
>> >
>> >Sentience enables very, very rapid adaption.
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>> Yep. WE will survive quite nicely ... well, SOME of us, the
>> species anyway. However there are a LOT of people who now
>> live in very marginal environments and really can't move
>> anywhere else. Most of THEM will perish if there's a big
>> climate swing ... a couple billion perhaps ? There will
>> also be resource wars - the poor and deprived predating on
>> other poor deprived people ... fighting over water, farm
>> land, wood and such. Add another billion casualties.
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>> Of course some 'marginal' environments will become GOOD
>> environments because of climate ****fts. SOME people will
>> benifit, flourish ... somewhat offsetting the losses.
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>Some idiots think that the arctic tundra will become arable farm land!
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>I've already sucked up all the property in Moose Factory on Hudson Bay.
That tundra won't become GREAT farmland ... it's too acidic
and lacks certain nutrients ... but, properly worked, it can
be "OK" farmland with maybe 20% the yeilds of the "good" stuff.
Sounds bad ... but there's gonna be a LOT of it exposed - VAST
amounts across Canada and Siberia. Even if it's relatively low
yeild, well, as Stalin once said, quantity has a quality all
its own :-)
>I plan on creating "new Miami Beach" up there.
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>Yeah! That's the ticket!
"Resort" areas rake in BIG bucks. Tons of little glacier-carved
lakes up in Canada. Pick a good area - may I suggest the west
shore of that little sprit of land 25 miles south of the enterance
to Hudsons bay, across from Home island (60 11.012 N 64 27.154 W).
Oughtta be ideal (access to the sea, hills/winter skiing, enough
elevation to resist 100 meters of sea-level rise, sheltered harbor)
and put in the condos, golf courses, nightclubs, shops, titty bars
etc.. All the cruise ****ps taking advantage of the 'northwest
passage' will stop in.
Sell 'em expensive trinkets, and maybe you can open a few casinos.
If the Canuk govt doesn't want casinos ... set up a deal with the
Greenlanders just 300 miles across the way in (soon to be
sunny) Nuuk.
Good Republicans don't whine about change - they INVEST in it. :-)
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