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To: HamiltonJay
HamiltonJay, if you don't mind, I'd like to defer a longer reply to this until tomorrow. You raise a lot of separate questions.

One thing for now.

More fresh water will be available and not trapped in solid form... (not a bad thing)....

Not necessarily. For quite a long time there has been a pretty good balance between glacial accretion and glacial melt, i.e., stable or slightly-growing glacial masses provided a constant (reliable) source of freshwater. There are a lot of people, globally, dependent on glaciers as a source of freshwater. Most mountain glaciers are receding (not all, but MOST) -- this trend could significantly diminish freshwater resources for a large percentage of the world's population. I think that this is one of the most significant current concerns of global warming, and in fact the CIA recognized water resources as having a very high likelihood of causing security instablity and conflict in their "Global Trends: 2015" report.

148 posted on 05/25/2006 12:29:47 PM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator

I won't argue that resources will change.. just as they always do, but the total available will increase.

Warmer temps = more evaporation no?

More evaporation means sooner or later more condensation.

The interesting thing about humans and animals and plants.... They migrate toward resources..

If water suddenly becomes scarce in one part of the world, they will either adapt or move to where the resources are. This will cause conflict, no doubt, as it always has in the entire history of humanity.. but the idea that 1-2 degree celcius increase is going to destroy the planet is hogwash.


159 posted on 05/25/2006 12:48:02 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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