Climate change could dry Great Lakes (Global warming alert)

UPI ^ | April 8, 2003

[Batrachian]

Well, Chicago does need more real estate.

[ml/nj]

The Great Lakes states will look more like parts of the South and Southwest by the end of the century as a result of global warming, a report released Tuesday concludes.

Too bad this guy isn't taking bets.

ML/NJ

[RippleFire]

Union of Concerned Scientists and the Ecological Society of America

Zzzzzz

[old3030]

I guess global warming is the reason we had a record snowfall in Southwest Missouri this year and the reason that I had snow flurries here again today, April 8.

Actually this should all balance out -- remember the oceans are supposed to rise from the melting ice caps, so all that water can flow back in to the Great Lakes.

[Snowy]

***yawn***

I guess if I were a pot smoker, I would be deeply saddened by this.

[Dr. Thorne]

"We are conducting the largest experiment in human history ... (by) increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide and other (greenhouse) gases," Wuebbles said

...as the propellor on top of his beanie slowly spun in the hot gases emanating from his mouth.

[Indy Pendance]

I live very near to the Great Lakes, we had 6 inches of snow last night. When we have real statistical data over the lifetime of the earth, not approximately 100 years of credible meteorological data, then I'll listen.

[Atilla_the_Hun]

"hot, dry summers and severe flooding in the winter and spring"...

Sounds like we need to build more dams

[al baby]

The biggest cause for global warming is the sun

[Always Right]

The two-year study, "Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on our Communities and Ecosystems," was conducted by 13 scientists from universities in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Toronto, using advanced models of the Earth's climate system

What a friggin load of crap. Any scientist worth his salt knows these models are phoney propaganda machines.

[Porterville]

I wonder if I can pre-buy land underneath the water???

[hadaclueonce]

my dad is shoveling two feet of their "global warming" off his drive way as we speak,
give it a rest.
Those countries that refuse to give their citizens the freedom to achieve, want to pull Americans down to their levels.
"ohh dah candle will not be as bright, if we darken dee amercians candle...

[Arkinsaw]

I wonder if I can pre-buy land underneath the water???

Yes, I have some available at reasonable prices. Just let me know.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Wuebbles said looking at core ice and soil samples going back 1,000 years, there's no question the climate globally is warmer now than in any previous era. ...

How can this statement be true? If we are to believe in the theory that the Time, Space and the Earth became out nothing at the point of the "big bang." I'm thinking that Earth was probably a tad hotter than the 70 degrees Farenheit that is alarming all the alamists.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Keep in mind that just 15 years ago the libs were saying that global warming would flood the Great Lakes. My family has a cottage on Lake Michigan and it was almost swept into the lake at that time. But luckily the water receeded and is now much lower. But give it another 15 years and the water will be high again. Things kind of go in cycles.

[Bernard Marx]

I'm waiting to see what the Union of Unconcerned Scientists has to say before I make up my mind.

[TheLion]

It has been in the 30's the last two days here in Virginia...global warming will have to wait!

[Havoc]

Sorry, but all this global warming bs is nothing more IMO than an excuse for democrats to give government handouts to irrelivant liberal whacked out nutjob friends of theirs. Defund the nutjobs and make them get a real job. Friggin wingnuts

[meyer]

The changes will lead to hot, dry summers and severe flooding in the winter and spring, the report, by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Ecological Society of America, predicts.

Well, considering the source is a full-blown leftist/socialist organization, I think I'll wait for a second opinion. The Union of Concerned Scientists has more sociologists and psychologists than it does people that have studied the physical sciences. Their goals aren't based on physics.