Re: Doomsday Scenario.

The human race will survive, not me, but there will be enough survivors to
carry on.

"Robert" <RB@..> wrote in message
news:2r66c1pf7leh08on4a78sts55cu4d7rpvd@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:19:45 -0400, "Dave Gower"
> <davegow.removethis@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Robert" <RB@..> wrote
>>
>>> By the time coal becomes short, in maybe fifty years, the polar caps
>>> will
>>> have
>>> melted, the oceans will have warmed considerably and the atmosphere will
>>> be hot
>>> and steamy. We will return to conditions somewhat like those of the
>>> carboniferous era.
>>
>>Greenland may have melted, but it is unlikely that the Antartic ice cap
>>will
>>have, at least in that time frame. Antartica is so far below freezing now
>>(-70 to -80F at the South Pole this time of year), that all a rise in
>>average temperatures is likely to do is result in increased precipitation
>>and therefore increase the depth of the icecap, at least near the middle.
>>
>>> The question arises, "HOW MUCH SUNLIGHT WILL REACH THE EARTH'S SURFACE
>>> THEN ?"
>>> Insolation has fallen by 10% in the past 20 years. How much will get
>>> through in
>>> fifty or one hundred years time?
>>
>>Turn off your caps key. It makes you look like some kind of crusader.
>
> Whatever I do will not CHANGE THE FATE OF HOMO SAPIENS, the animal that
> wiped
> itself out because it invented a thing called money.
>
>>Computer model results that I've read about predict only modest drops in
>>sunlight, if at all. Clouds are complex things, as is atmospheric optics.
>
> You should look at some more realistic computer models.
> Global dimming is already occuring. 10% already.
>
>


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