Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]wait a second, i rememebr the "coming ice age" from when i was in junior high school! http://www.climate4you.com/images/1974%20NewIceAgeComing.jpg now i know it's real. i used to think it was just more of this: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x0/x4164.jpg :-) -rei On Nov12 21:13, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > Maybe we have it all wrong. Those photographers worrying about cameras in > cold weather are on the right track. > > A new analysis of the cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the > past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climate will > settle into a permanent colder state in the next millenium with expanded > ice sheets at both poles. > > The authors, Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh and > William T. Hyde of the University of Toronto, used climate models and > other techniques to assess the chances that the world is witnessing the > final stages of a 50-million-year transition from a planet with a > persistent warm climate and scant polar ice to one with greatly expanded > ice sheets at both poles. > > The paper goes on to propose that humans would be likely to avert such a > slide into a long big chill by adding greenhouse gases to the > atmosphere. Sure, Holland, Denmark, Florida, and Manhattan will be under > water in the short term but eventually will dry out as the Polar ice caps > grow. > > Go ahead and crank those Hummers up to full power (if you can afford it) > and cherish coal fired power plants. You will be helping the environment > in the long term. Burn (fuel) baby, burn! And keep those digital camera > batteries warm. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey