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To: RealMuLan who wrote (59988)	2/4/2005 9:07:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<The alpine flora of Europe, Australia and New Zealand will probably disappear completely> In large glacial valleys, emptied of ice over the last 20,000 years, there are now grapes growing, so it's no great loss. I prefer drinking wine to eating lichen or being buried in 500 metres of glacier: gibbstonvalleywines.com Good riddance to the ice age. The alpine flora will have to live somewhere else, or join the billions of extinct unsuccessful lines of DNA. Mqurice

To: RealMuLan who wrote (59988)	2/5/2005 12:40:00 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

That's an interesting report. I'm ignorant about climate change matters. My impression is that there is no consensus yet among those styled as experts in that field as to how much global warming awaits us. I have read the theory that as the oceans warm, the vapor pressure of the water increases, (that's surely true) and as a result there will be more clouds. More clouds mean less direct sun hence a cooler climate. In other words according to those "experts" the warming process will come to a halt or at least be slowed considerably. In any case we of course would be benefitted by producing less heat so that humanity can adjust more readily to the adverse effects and determine more exactly what the future will be.