<The 144-page report on Arctic climate change will be released next week. The scientists are starting to panic.>
That'll be interesting. Scientists panicking? Of all the stuff I've read about the dreaded climate change over 20 years, it's quite underwhelming.
So far, all I've seen is an avoided ice-age [maybe, if we're lucky]. We are still a long way from a runaway greenhouse effect. Plants are thriving on the extra CO2. Food costs are low and obesity diseases are considered a global epidemic whereas not many years ago, famine was the worry.
Russians will be able to sell their huge natural gas reserves for higher relative prices. I'm not surprised they are in favour of carbon emissions controls. If the world was a lot warmer, it would probably be no bad thing for Russia. They could sail out from Murmansk straight over the north pole.
When the glaciation ice melts over land, such as it did over Europe, all that water goes into the sea, lifting sea levels, but the land also rises, giving a double dousing to other places such as Venice and the lost city of Atlantis. Sweden is still rising, 10,000 years after the ice melted. When Greenland melts, Greenland will also gradually rise up due to reduction in ice load. The oceans are also warmer, so thermal expansion also makes the water deeper.
Apparently sea level used to be 200 metres lower than it is now. So sea levels do change. With our without people driving SUVs and digging up the oil and bringing it back to life, where it belongs; I'm pro-life. The more the merrier I think.
Down with Kyoto Rulz.
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