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To: Crabbe who wrote (4177)	2/10/2006 5:14:53 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218140

Maybe the Little Ice Age was a temporary slowing of the Gulf Stream. If Europe cools in winter, it doesn't matter: <If the Gulf Stream does shut down completely, there will be an average 8-10 degrees C cooling of Europe extended to past Moscow > Once somewhere gets to 0 degrees Celsius, it's already so cold that nothing is growing, everybody where's warm clothes and hides inside. Another 10 degrees is neither here nor there, though they'd have to invest in snow removal from roads, which is no big deal. Or buy snow tyres. We lived in Ottawa and one week, the high was -18 degrees. Overnight, it got to -32 degrees. No worries. We've lived in London and it felt colder because we didn't get fully insulated and heated. Wearing our NZ clothes and trying to get by. Not heating the house other than a bit if it was really cold. In Canada, you heat the house! Turn on the nuclear power stations and stay warm. Buy insulation. Shut windows. Or, better still, move to a nice climate. Africa is needing two billion people. The Sahara has nobody in it. It will bloom in an ice age [as happened previously]. Build nice modern cities with big motorways. <The carbon dioxide level is closing in on doubling since 1850. and is increasing at a faster and faster rate.> It's like filling a leaky bucket. You make good progress at first, but the deeper it gets, the faster it leaks and the more you have to put in. Watch algal blooms scoff the spare CO2. Free meals don't sit around for too long when nature is feeling hungry. Check CO2 levels in the atmosphere over the past 500 million years, not just the last couple of centuries. That will give you a better guide to what Earth can stand. Since all the carbon used to be alive, I don't think you will find we have a chance in hell of getting near the maximum as we can't possibly rescue more than a tiny fraction of it. Mqurice