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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tipping point = bifurcation = chaos = massive change

+

oil shocks (?)

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global unrest

=

Perfect Storm



Enjoy the ride.
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nautilus



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



Greenland:The changes are still happening away from where most us can see them..for now anyway. Its going to pieces, wether you're conscious of it or not. Comfortably couped up in urban metropolis as most people are, its hardly surprising people are blas'ee.
Brace yourselves is all I can say...
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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And the big problem with this is that it all goes to sea level rise. Ice sheets melting are symptoms. Continental ice sheets melting increase sea level. I can't recall how much sea level rise would come from the Greenland cap melting, but it's a lot. A meter? Regardless.... because if THAT one has melted, the others will have gone with it. Call it meters. Heck, could be tens of meters if it all melts, no?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

About a thousand years ago there were no glaciers on Greenland.

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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

B.S., cb.

That was just plain stupid. Why is it you never have anything to back up your idiotic comments on this thread, eh?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why is it called Greenland?

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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, anyway, I'm fairly sure there will be rising sea levels and wild, unpredictable weather in general, but while some changes will be bad, the net effect on others will be positive. The question then becomes where to position one's self for future comfort/opportunities, what have you?
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nautilus



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

EFLtrainer wrote:
So, anyway, I'm fairly sure there will be rising sea levels and wild, unpredictable weather in general, but while some changes will be bad, the net effect on others will be positive. The question then becomes where to position one's self for future comfort/opportunities, what have you?


Plenty of new real estate and oil exploration in the newly unveiled greenland. just to make the warming worse...
Shipping will soon have a new Arctic passage open to them. Probably a few too many dangerous icebergs for the next few years though...

The equator will be virtually unliveable. maybe you could fry eggs out there for a restaurant business.

You could always go into water. it'll be a scarce resource soon in many places. You could always pipe it from all the soon-to-be flooded areas though.

or maybe you could try your hand at arms selling to supply all the new conflicts that will arise from dwindling resources.
Start a museum for all the soon to be extinct animals?

I reckon it'll go haywire a bit faster than scientists predict. When you factor in all the domino effects..
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Volcano erupts in Comoros, spewing lava and rattling residents

PARIS (AP) � A volcano spat forth lava and black smoke early Saturday on an island in Comoros in the Indian Ocean, triggering tremors throughout the day and rattling residents, officials said.

The eruption of 7,746-foot Mount Karthala on Grand Comore, the largest of the three Comoros islands, did not endanger residents, Hamid Soule of the Karthala Observatory said by telephone.

The volcano started erupting overnight, bright orange flames showing up against the black sky, he said. The lava production appeared to slow by morning, but the volcano continued to shake and tremble throughout the day."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-13-comoros_x.htm

"Thousands of Sri Lankans trek to safety after landslides kill 17

PADIYAPELELLA, Sri Lanka (AP) � Air force helicopters evacuated dozens of people injured during landslides in Sri Lanka's central tea-growing region that left 17 dead and others missing, officials said Saturday.

Thousands of other people waited on higher ground to be air lifted to safety after the local administration asked residents to leave from the region, which has no land access because of heavy landslides in several places.

"A lot of people here want to go," said Sameera Samarakoon, an army captain from the farming village of Padiyapelella, affected by the landslides."

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2007-01-13-srilanka_x.htm

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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And??
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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Victims of Climate change:

Carteret Islands

Check on CNN video.

Signs of climate change:

Antarctica melting faster than expected.

CNN video.

Hey, cbc, states CO2 is rising faster than ever before (ice cores). Hmmm.... no human impact, eh?
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Junior



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

God will return soon. But only after mankind has completely mucked it all up first. Shouldn't be too long now.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Los Angeles is freezing, the planet must be cooling.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Snow in Texas.

Global cooling fer sure.

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EFLtrainer



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Read this, dumbass.

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html

You can also read the full report in PDF, if you have the balls to follow the links.
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