Posted on 10/20/2009 2:37:43 PM PDT by MNDude
Today is Earth Day 1990...
What will happen 20 years in the future if we don't take strong measures now ...?
By 2010, the Earth's temperature will increase five to seven degrees, he said. Even that seemingly small rise will cause a chain reaction of catastrophic proportions that will begin with the melting of the polar icecaps, said Steger, who also led the international trans-Antarctica expedition that monitored damage caused by ozone depletion. Ocean waters will rise from melting ice, endangering coastal regions.... Much of the West Coast - ...- and the Eastern seaboard will be flooded, and parts of the Soviet Union, Denmark and the Amazon deltas will be underwater.
Miami Beach will not be the vacation spot of choice... As temperatures soar in Florida, vacationers and retirees may flock to New York for the year-round sunshine and balmy breezes. And snow? Forget it. That white, frosty blanket that has traditionally covered large parts of the Midwest and East in the winter will be something you only see in picture books - or maybe in the mountains.
The Midwest, the nation's farm belt will become a dust bowl, Steger said. "It'll be like a parched desert," Steger said. "This will not only affect our food but the food supply of other countries...People will starve. It will be a disaster."
Most of the mighty lakes, such as Lake Michigan, and the Mississippi and other rivers will turn into giant mud flats. The Earth's rising temperature would also turn forests into grasslands. And 50 to 90 percent of America's salt marshes, swamps and bayous will be destroyed because of the flooding, Steger said.
Soto compares society in 2010 to the movie "Blade Runner. where acid rain is a way of life,...and the world is dark and gray.
(Excerpt) Read more at nl.newsbank.com ...
And I feel fine.
These people must stay up nights making this stuff up.
Have you ever heard the version by the Canadian band Great Big Sea?
I heard people were getting sunburns at the Patriots game last Sunday.
Who's this Svengali?
Old global warming article of interest
TOO funny, we had snow here on Sunday. Did anyone see the Pats playing in the SNOW? It’s the middle of OCTOBER.
Yet the enviros continue to believe. It really is a religion, not science.
I’d answer this but I starved to death in the 2000 famines.
One of my favorite songs :)
GBS is one of my favorites all around.
And I froze to death in the seventies.
Will Steger. Left winger extraordinaire from Ely Minnesota. An ultragreenie.
AMEN!
In 1988 Ted Danson (TV commercials)and Gallagher (the watermelon smasher)said that the rivers and ocean will die within 10 to 20 years.
Science fiction is best when projected in the distant future, and catastrophic events should always be attributed to something unknown, like planet Z, after colliding with the moons of planet X. Global warming is boring science fiction, a fickle idea that no serious meteorologist should buy into.
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