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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (59456)	1/26/2005 5:41:43 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Hi Ray, it's a question of time and scale. The melting due to climate change in the last 250 years is insignificant compared to the potential melting of the remaining ice. To put it in perspective, if the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets both melt then worldwide sea levels will rise 80 meters and inundate many of the major cities in the world! So Mq and I are both arguing that the current melting is too trivial to support Taikun's theory that global warming caused the recent Sumatra earthquake. Where Mq and I disagree is on the potential rate of future ice sheet melting. He thinks it would take thousands of years, and that humans would have plenty of time to adapt. I'm more open to the idea of sudden rapid melting, severe climate disruption, and total chaos during my own lifetime. Organisms wreck their own environments all the time, and I don't see why humans should be exempt.

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