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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (1050)	11/17/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 12232

Tim, if the Arctic ice has lost 40% of its volume, how come the sea level hasn't risen around the world? Meanwhile, while people ponder the answer to that question, here's confirmation of my theory about monkeys choosing stocks. 1:100,000,000 should do at least as well as Warren Buffett. Thanks to SpudFarmer for the find!http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19991025/news/current/superstar.htx?source=blq/yhoo&dist=yhoo How do we know if we are a Chimp with a Dartboard and a Datek account or a real stock analyst who gets it right because we are so smart? Also, was the Arctic ice really only, on average, 10 feet thick? Somehow I always thought of it as being 100 feet or something. Since it must constantly melt with warmer ocean water circulating under it due to Coriolis Forces, I suppose it never does get very thick even right at the pole. The ice on Greenland [and Antarctica] is kilometres thick and Europe is still rising from the release of the ice sheet which was some 4km thick during the last ice age. Since most people live in the temperate climates of the northern hemisphere, the danger of another ice age far exceeds the problem of a rising sea level due to ice melting and ocean warming. A comet splashdown will affect sea levels far faster and sooner than any climate warming due to oil burning which won't have any impact no matter how fast we try to burn it. We can't burn enough of it or fast enough to affect CO2 levels in the air. CO2 from people burning oil is trivial. My old employer, BP Oil, gives great data. bpamoco.com Compare the carbon emissions from fossil fuels with CO2 in the air and the biomass of the earth and oceans and realize how insignificant people are in the CO2 ecosystem. Sure, people and fossil fuels make a real mess in cities. Mq