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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (28877)	4/28/2010 9:34:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 36921

People who live near sea level on coastal margins are waiting for bolide induced tsunamis and they will get them. They will be so large and so sudden that a sea level rise of 20cm over 100 years will be irrelevant. As they found in New Orleans, even a storm can cause major problems. Imagine how they'd feel if a tsunami came ashore 20 metres high from a Tunguska sized bolide coming down in the vicinity over the Atlantic ocean. The Pacific ocean makes an even bigger and better target with vast numbers of people living near sea level all around the Pacific rim and on islands out in the ocean. It's not a matter of if it will happen, but when it will happen. After it has happened, then laws will be passed to ban living close to sea level. Sea level rise due to very very gradual temperature changes will be understood to be completely irrelevant. If it takes 100 years for sea levels to rise enough to be a problem, old buildings can be abandoned as no longer economic and need not be replaced or renovated. There would be almost no economic loss. But from current evidence on sea level rise and the theory of global warming due to CO2 emissions from burning carbon, there isn't even a problem. There has been 100 years of intense carbon burning with not much to show for it other than a rise in atmospheric CO2 which has been great for plant growth. Even the slight increase in air temperature can't be attributed to CO2 because air temperature have increased from the depths of the Little Ice Age, of course. When an ice age ends, even if only a "Little" one, temperatures rise and glaciers retreat. If it is true that we have had an effect, it is most likely to have been to forestall the next reglaciation - but even that is probably wishful thinking. I predict reglaciation beginning 2020 - and the last couple of winters were a preliminary skirmish thanks to low solar activity. The next solar low might not be so merciful. Mqurice

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