Be prepared, as last year had the biggest Antartic ice cap in 30 years, so it will have to be a VERY QUICK melting.
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 ...
I dare them to predict the weather a month from now......let alone 20 years from now.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH...
Now you made me lose count!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be prepared, as last year had the biggest Antartic ice cap in 30 years, so it will have to be a VERY QUICK melting.
Wasn’t this guy also one who claimed to have been abducted by Aliens some time?
Y2-what now? I’ve been in a cave since the Hunts cornered the silver market...
Who writes this overwrought junk. What is the difference between a parched and a 'regular' desert.
My parents were hunckered down since before Fat Ted took his first drink....
Well, we know the bullsh-t got deeper. Everyone knows that mans’ use of tobacco and the numerous wars on the European cont. in the 17 and 18 hundred,destroyed all life on earth 180 years ago. Even before Y2K and saccrarin.
My sun bleached skull lies smack dab in the middle of the Great American Desert, in 1997 my family decided to move to Canada to escape the “great blight drought” of the 1990’s and all of my family died of thirst in South Dakota....
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