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To: maceng2 who wrote (37625)	8/31/2003 6:31:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Traditional northern fish species, such as cod, haddock and herring, which thrive in cool water, are becoming scarce.> Good riddance. Kippers = yuk... Though I know it's a British delicacy. There has been global warming for 10,000 years since the retreat of the last ice age got serious. Northern Europe is still rising after the kilometres of ice load was removed. One day, it'll flip over and head back into an ice age and that'll happen fast according to my 1987 theory which has recently been popularized. It happens fast because snow cover is highly reflective and so is frozen ocean, and so is flora-free desert, and so is cloud. It's green [plants] and blue [ocean] which absorb heat and keep the earth warm. During greenhouse times, as deserts spread, and flora follows the retreating ice cover, the world stays in relative balance. But when plants can no longer keep the place warm because reflective desert areas have extended too far, then snow cover starts to extend, lasting longer into summer, reflecting sunlight, increasing cloud cover. The deserts are still reflecting flat out so offer no relief. It takes time for plants to re-establish in desert. Next winter, the snow comes earlier, because it's cooler, lasts longer into the next summer, and the permafrost line starts moving south [and north, though it has trouble getting far into the Antarctic oceans]. By the third cycle, there's snow everywhere, the place hasn't warmed up from the last year and things are looking grim in the snowy areas. Then the process accelerates and within 10 years, we are smack dab in an ice age with not much left but deserts and snow cover. The flora is squeezed between the snow lines and has to start moving south and north into the now cooler and wetter deserts. People move south and north back to Egypt, Africa and India, where there happen to already be a lot of people. In gung ho happy harmony, we all build vast new cities in what was desert but is now blooming, and we all live happily ever after, chattering away on our CDMA2000 phragmented photon cyberphones. While it's a nice idea that we can stem the tide by reducing oil consumption, that's peeing in the ocean or farting against thunder, to use colloquial phrases. The process has been under way a LOT longer than we have been around and using oil, which contributes only about 10% of atmospheric CO2, which, if anything helps plants in their attempt to keep the earth warm. Plants breathe and eat CO2. It's them and us against the ice age. If we are quick, we might be able to plant the deserts in green [pine forests or something] and stop the next ice age dead in its tracks. Or, we could spray soot from huge power stations all over the snow cover. Ha! That'll fix the ice age. Soot absorbs a lot of sunlight. Mqurice