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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: willcousa who wrote (535865)	2/5/2004 11:55:10 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A valid (though cross-disciplinary) comparison. Interestingly (putting aside for now the relative merits --- of lack thereof --- of the evidence and arguments in favor of the 'Global Warming case') --- the most recent research into Greenland and other ice core samples points to a possible 'tipping effect'.... That climate change need not always be a gradual process. Relatively modest increases in polar temperatures may melt enough fresh water ice to shut down the great Atlantic Conveyor (Gulf Stream being but a part of the conveyor) in a matter of a few short years.... There appears to be evidence in the ice that this has perhaps happened numerous times in our planet's history. Such a shutdown would rapidly produce an Ice Age across Europe, the US East Coast, central continental areas, etc.... And the failure of agriculture that feeds perhaps a billion people. The ICE Ages may be expected to last much longer than our current inter-Ice-Age warm period. Climatology is little enough understood --- and so hideously complicated --- yet potentially so valuable to us all.... That research should be supported, and not politicized.