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To: Tokra

I wasn't referring to a single hurricane but a period of hurricanes.

I don't deny global warming. I wouldn't deny global cooling either. Planet Earth is always either warming or cooling so you always have a 50 percent chance of being right with a warming/cooling prediction.

I agree that anthropogenic causality is foolish.


73 posted on 12/08/2006 9:05:06 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon
I don't deny global warming. I wouldn't deny global cooling either.

I certainly deny global cooling - at least in this century. I have watched the climate in the Northern US get progressively warmer over the past 25 years. Plants and animal habitats have steadily crept farther north, and the ice cap at the North Pole has melted more each summer over the past 25 years. That adds up to warming - not cooling.

I don't see it as a negative thing. Our winters are shorter and our summers and growing seasons are longer. What's so bad about that?

People living in the South may have some problems with warmer and warmer weather every year, but here in the North - we welcome it.

Although there are some negatives - the Great Lakes are losing water due to increased evaporation because of the warmer weather. While those on the ocean beaches may lose land - those with beachfront property on the Great Lakes are gaining land.

I have a friend with a summer home on the beach on Lake Huron. Their cottage used to be 50 feet from the waves - now its 200 feet away. Bigger beaches might not sound so bad, but when the thirsty Southwest start turning their covetous eyes on the Great Lakes - the largest reservoir of fresh water, it will make a BIG difference. I used to tell my friends in Texas that Michigan will be happy to sell them all the water they want - at $40 a barrel, the same price that Texas sold us their oil!

78 posted on 12/08/2006 10:43:12 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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