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

To: JDN who wrote (691220)	7/10/2005 3:24:20 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

lol, No! I saw the movie. It happened in like one afternoon dude!

To: JDN who wrote (691220)	7/10/2005 4:00:13 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 769670

Farenheit 911 is on Showtime tonight. :•)))

To: JDN who wrote (691220)	7/10/2005 5:59:13 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Q. You make it sound as if an ice age could begin almost overnight. But didn’t we learn in school that ice ages begin slowly, over tens of thousands of years? A. We learned wrong. In 1987 a research project called GRIP (Greenland Ice Core Project) began drilling deep cores into the ice in central Greenland. They drilled almost two miles deep, deep enough to reach ice that formed 250,000 years ago. When they analyzed the cores, they found that every ice age during the past 250,000 years—and there were many—began abruptly. Q. What do you mean by abruptly? A. The climate descended from periods of warmth such as today’s—let me repeat that, from periods of warmth such as today’s—to full-blown glacial severity in less than twenty years. Perhaps in less than ten. I want people to hear me on this. This is not theory. This is fact. Ice ages begin incredibly fast, and they do it from periods of warmth such as today’s. (more excerpts from iceagenow.com, pretty interesting stuff)

To: JDN who wrote (691220)	7/10/2005 6:18:37 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

more about the Gulf Stream weakening which can cause much colder temperatures: Unexpected Gulf Stream weakening could soon bring much colder temperatures (May 9, 2005) "The Gulf Stream is flowing at a quarter of the strength of five years ago," say scientists at Cambridge University, which is likely to bring much colder temperatures to Europe and the eastern United States within a few years. The scientists predict that temperatures in Britain are likely to drop by 5-8 degrees Celsius, from an average of 22 at present. The summer growing season would be catastrophically curtailed in Europe, leading to huge declines in production from one of the world's primary surplus production zones. Winters similar to those in Finland will extend far south into France, with the possibility that a series of "no-melt" summers across the northern latitudes could lead to new glaciation. The eastern US and eastern Canada will likely experience climate change as radical as that in Europe as the Gulf Stream drops south. At the least, food production and liveability in the eastern half of North America will be severely challenged. The reason for the decline is that gigantic chimneys of cold water that were sinking from the surface to the sea bed off Greenland have disappeared. These chimneys are the key engine of world climate as we know it today, and their disappearance signals the beginning of a great catastrophe. Scientists assume that the Gulf Stream will slow and stop over a period of years, not suddenly. However, there is ample evidence that sudden and extreme changes have taken place worldwide in the past.