Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KyrosL who wrote (7004)	8/12/2001 6:37:56 PM
From: PMG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

It has been show that whenever man disturbs an ecologic system he screws it up. Another problem is that what humans do since 100-200 years makes changes happen much faster than evolution can cope with it. The destruction of the Ozone layer and skin cancer is a good example related to human effects on global climate. It has also been shown that the warming that has already happened has made deserts grow. A global warming is supposed to actually harm global agriculture. We are also seeing an increase in extreme weather conditions like hurricanes, floods and unusuals droughts. A warmer atmosphere causes such. Planes like Mars (cold) and Venus (hot) show the extremes. The glaciers and other snow-covered thus reflecting surface areas are melting at a fast pace. So what we get even from a very small increase in temperature is desasters, real desasters. The most remarkable thing is that e.g. in Germany everybody(!) learns that at school and in the US these facts are somehow played down. Imagine what Europeans think when Bush then says "ahh, this analysis must be flawed, and we'll get that fixed by starting our own reserarch... <g>