Re: OT: "Global Warming" again

On 1 Feb 2007 10:57:09 GMT, Robert Latest <boblatest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

But are the effects of additional CO2 all horrific?

Climate change (no matter what is causing it, or what form it takes) is
pretty horrific, as has been pointed out already.

It's pointed out constantly. And the pointers must assume that the
climate of the good ole days was the best of all possible climates.


And, if climate change exists and is indeed leading to rising temperatures
(which nobody doubts), sea levels WILL rise and make many of the most
densely populated areas (the coastal ones) uninhabitable. We'll have New
Orleans a million times over - not all at once, but a hundred years still
isn't a long time.

Most estimates of sea-level rise (ignoring Algore) are modest,
millimeters per year. We'll run out of fossil fuels before sea level
rises enough to do much harm. Of course, the current *natural* warming
cycle could last for thousands of years.

John


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