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To: E who wrote (124939)	2/23/2004 5:56:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<They should have asked you, those silly scientists!> Yes, they should. I helped our son in 1987 with a school project and I suggested the idea of climate flip to ice-age. I explained to him how it would work. Now, a decade and a century later, "scientists" are starting to realize that gradual change is unlikely. It's pleasing to see the scientists catching up. Always ahead of the game, Mqurice PS: Rising sea level due to greenhouse gases isn't something to worry about. They should worry about instantly rising sea level, albeit temporarily, due to meteors like the Tunguska one causing splashes in the Pacific and huge tsunamis. People think meteor impacts big enough to make a splash are million year events. They are not. They are century events. Look at the moon to see how many incomings there are, their size distribution and what sort of impact they have. Another of my hobby horses is that Taupo [a place in NZ] people would do well to move out of the caldera now. The next Taupo eruption won't be giving much, or any, warning. That's because it's a phreatomagmatic eruption with pumice being ejected. It's not a gentle little volcano like Hawaiian ones, where magma gently fountains and runs down the side in a river. Taupo goes BLAM in one vast eruption as a column of liquids turns to gases as the pressure is relieved, causing a huge expansion of the magma.