Re: Cold, hard facts defy the doomsayers


"Aidan Karley" <doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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In article <LVYNf.590147$084.320096@attbi_s22>, George wrote:
If the public doesn't
heed warnings about global warming, and our coastal cities are
inundated,
many will likely die.

Well ... that depends on if the inundation is due to a local
perturbation or more gradual effects of general sea level. In the abrupt
events, obviously people are going to die, but one would hope that people
would get the message in advance and haul ass out of there before the
situation gets too bad.
Hmmm, when did people start warning about flooding in New Orleans?
Some time early in the last century. Or, for that matter, high tide
flooding
in East London? Or the Nene breaking it's banks several times most
winters?
Same answer.
Maybe people won't learn. <SIGH>

--
Aidan Karley FGS
Aberdeen, Scotland,
Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

You are right. People never learn. But then, neither does our government,
apparently, even though the experts within the government had clearly
sounded the alarm for years.

George


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