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Women and minorities to be hardest hit.
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This was not new news. It may have escaped the attention of the leftwing elites (and Rush Limbaugh as well), but it's not recent stuff.
What is surprising is that the information presently available says that it may happen a little sooner than anyone thought ~ like this year, or next, and Europe might go back into the freezer ~ which is, in fact, a NORMAL CONDITION.
We are still in an Ice Age ~ a particularly nasty one ~ and the interglacials are of relatively short duration. A current theory is that the greenhouse gases we've produced through development of agriculture have been staving off the start of the next one. The worry here is that this reglaciation of Europe might trigger a headlong plunge of the whole planet out of its present Interglacial irrespective of greenhouse gas levels.
Do you know what this is going to do to real estate prices in the Americas and Africa? There are nearly 400,000,000 people who presently live in the affected area. They'll be coming to a neighborhood near you!
Oh, yes, they are armed with nukes and will be particularly dangerous. So be sweet.
Global Warming or Global Ice age. You can't have it both ways.
What I expecially liked about the Discover Channel program was the statement of fact that in the 1600 to late 1800's we had one of the coldest earth temperatures on record.
But wait.....isn't the basis for all the global warming arguments that we know there is global warming, because things are hotter now than they were in the late 1800's prior to the industrial revolution....... Can't have it both ways.
I wonder if Al Gore will issue a retraction on his predictions... Hah....
Well, one point Rush doesn't pick up is that sea ice is mostly fresh water, with only a little trapped salt. As one article explains, "When sea ice forms, some of the salt in the ocean water is trapped in small pockets between the ice crystals; however, most of it is "ejected" into the ocean below."
So when sea ice melts, it melts as fresh water, or nearly so.
Otherwise, I would say that sure, there are likely big changes afoot in the ocean and currents shifting and changing, but it has nothing much to do with human effluents into the atmosphere. It stands to reason that an ocean current would fluctuate naturally and cause weather changes on the adjacent lands.
This is going to kill the clothing and fashion industry. Nobody will know whether to buy summer or winter clothing.
And let's not forget that global warming has been sped up by the demise of Communism. You see, when all of the Eastern European countries were belching out all the black soot into the environment that they could, it was a good thing. More particulates in the air, the more warming rays of the sun were blocked from the earth's surface. Then the capitalists cleaned things up, putting LESS pollution into the air, so now MORE of the sun gets through and INCREASES global warming. So, the rationale of the environmentalist is - capitalist pollution is BAD! - communist pollution is GOOD!
Maybe I'll just take a hot bath instead and then go watch somebody beat up Alan Colmes again. Yeah. That's it.
Global warming is causing/will cause a mini-ice age in Europe.
The reason for this is that glaciers and ice-caps have been melting, and the salinity of the ocean is being changed. This affects the warm Gulf Stream that is responsible for the warmer than otherwise climate in Europe.
So, if Europe gets colder, the glaciers and ice-caps in the northern portion of the globe will not melt as fast, and the Gulf stream should be back to its normal strength and volume again.
What are these liberals complaining about? This system has a feed-back loop to fix things right.
The big thing about this issue is that it IS IN NO WAY caused by humans. This shifting of the jet-stream has been seen before in history. In the Middle ages a mini ice age hit Europe causing diseases to thrive, ultimately leading to the great plague which wiped out Europe. But wait thats not possible because there were no cars back then to cause global warming. Oops my fault.
It is a good thing, then, that Frenchmen are learning how to build a good fire.
Hope everyone has read Michael Crichton's book on this subject. It is a must read!
Didn't they try this crap in the very late 70's/early 80's? "Nuclear winter" so some garbage?
I'm still waiting for the leftists to explain how come there was global warming as long ago as 55 million years ago and global warming on Mars that is causing the Martian Polar Caps to melt - especially in light of the fact that neither event involves humans, fossil fuels or SUVs.
Could be a long wait.
See, those muzzies knew what to do!
So it it true! GLOBAL WARMING WILL FREEZE US ALL!