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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (16637)	10/3/2007 2:42:37 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36917

"There should have been panic on the streets," says Lynas in his new book, Six Degrees, "people shouting from the rooftops, statements to parliament and 24-hour news coverage." lololol here we go again with the chicken little crap.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (16637)	10/6/2007 5:15:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Wharfie, that would be a LOT of fun. It is hard to look at scenes of great tranquil natural beauty and imagine what the scene can turn to. My favourite such scene is the view from the lake front of Taupo, on a clear blue day, looking towards Ruapehu etc. It is as idyllic as I have seen. Yet it is actually the edge of a giant crater lake, way inside the rim of the Taupo volcano. geonet.org.nz One day, sooner rather than later in my opinion, it is going to let go when the column of liquid turns to gas as the pressure comes off, probably at a spring tide during low atmospheric pressure and with low ground water levels and low lake levels. You will hear about it. It will be a phenomenal explosion and might be sufficient to bring on the ice age again as the fine white airborne pumice circles Earth reflecting the sunlight. I guess there's about a 1:10 chance of it erupting in the next 100 years [based on the frequency of previous eruptions]. Taupo and a lot more besides will cease to exist. There will be commissions of enquiry as government departments point fingers at everyone other than themselves. There will be new laws introduced banning construction in volcanic areas - after the emergency is over, which will be some time since electricity supplies will stop to most of the North Island and there will be huge economic losses as the Waikato might be destroyed along with forestry and Rotorua comes to halt if it isn't actually buried alive. It will be like after 911, they decided too late that it wasn't a good idea to leave cockpit doors open for anyone to wander in with a box-cutter. Mqurice