Melting Ice 'Will Swamp Capitals' (Global Warming)

Independent (UK) ^ | 12-7-2003 | Geoffrey Lean

[blam]

"climate change is soon likely to exceed anything the planet has seen "in the last million years"

Did they forget that the worlds oceans rose from 300-500 feet only 15,000 years ago.

[blam]

Don't you have a 'global warming' ping list?

[Mulder]

Melting Ice 'Will Swamp Capitals'

And this is a bad thing?

[redhead]

Um, help me out here...ICE displaces water and raises the level. When it melts, the level subsides. What am I missing?

[MarkeyD]

Or course they fail to recognize that with the Gulf Stream 'polluted' with cold water, there will no longer be any warm water to keep western Europe warm. All that ice that melts in Greenland and Antartica will be deposited in western Europe as snow. That, or western Europe will become one big ice skating rink.

[PatrickHenry]

Golly! We'd better give Hillary dictatorial powers immediately. For the children.

[MarkeyD]

That's the Arctic you are thinking about. The ice the are talking about sits on land in Greenland and in Antarctica.

[MarkeyD]

Antarctica

[EGPWS]

"putting the world well on the way to doomsday".

Well, I'll be!

All this time I thought is would be the "mindful" actions of SUV's that would bring about this demise.

I just don't know what to think anymore.

[mhking]

Even Hollywood is getting into the act....

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[keithtoo]

Give us a date when this will happen.

Then when it doesn't happen we will shoot you.

[Faraday]

...the world well on the way to doomsday...

Time to stock up on 20 year-old single malt Scotch. Could these people be more stupid?

[cyborg]

Oh dear... someone's tinfoil hat is on too tight over there. Does this mean I should buy shares of in cloud city? Or should I invest in a houseboat?

[pctech]

Man, you stole my line!!!!!!!

[facedown]

...eventually raising sea levels world wide by up to 30 feet...

Cool!!! Then I can fish for flounder off my back porch!

[Drammach]

I laugh with derisive jocularity, while constructing my tin foil helmet.

We are still recovering from the "little ice age" of the dark ages.
We have not yet reached the global temperatures extant at the time Eric the Red discovered Newfoundland's shores.

Let me say that again, (paraphrased) for effect.
It's still colder globally, than it was 1,000 years ago.

[Prodigal Son]

We're doomed.

[Timesink]

I can't trust a movie that considers the UN building to be the biggest landmark in Manhattan.

[GreenHornet]

I guess I'd better move my car.

[Leroy S. Mort]

London, New York, Miami, Bombay, Calcutta, Sydney, Shanghai, Lagos and Tokyo would be among those largely submerged by such a rise.

I'll miss Sydney and Tokyo.....