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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1065185)	4/13/2018 8:19:29 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578141

My religion is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Really ????? And you like to refer to yourself as a scientist , er engineer????

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1065185)	4/13/2018 8:19:50 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578141

"My religion is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." I admire how reverently you hold it, to never speak it in public. APRIL 11, 2018 A North American Climate Boundary Has Shifted 140 Miles East Due to Global Warming In the late 1800s, geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell first described a clear boundary running longitudinally through North America along the 100thmeridian west that visibly separated the humid eastern part of the continent from the more arid western plains. Now, 140 years later, scientists have confirmed that such a sharp climatic boundary exists and that it is slowly shifting east due to climate change — a change that scientists say could have significant implications on farming in the region. The new research, published in a pair of studies in the journal Earth Interactions late last month, found the divide is created by three factors: the Rocky Mountains stopping moisture from the Pacific Ocean reaching farther inland, Atlantic winter storms bringing moisture to the eastern half of the U.S., and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico moving north and curving eastward during the summer months. The only other clear, straight divide between humid and arid areas on the globe is the one separating the Sahara Desert from the rest of Africa, climate scientist Richard Seager of Columbia University, lead author of the new papers, said in a statement. Seager and his colleagues wanted to study the boundary as an example of “psychogeography” — how environmental conditions affect human decisions. “Powell talked eloquently about the 100th meridian, and this concept of a boundary line has stayed with us down to the current day,” said Seager. “We wanted to ask whether there really is such a divide, and whether it’s influenced human settlement.” The divide cuts through eastern Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and the Canadian province of Manitoba. West of the 100thmeridian, population density declines and development is sparse, and farms are larger and primarily depend on arid-resistant crops like wheat. To the more humid east, more people and infrastructure exist. Farms are smaller and 70 percent of the harvested crop is moisture-loving corn. Studying rainfall and temperature data since 1980, Seager and his colleagues found this climatic boundary has already shifted east about 140 miles so that it now sits closer to the 98th meridian. And it will continue to move east as warming global temperatures increase evaporation from the soil and change precipitation patterns, they concluded. According to a press release by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, “Seager predicts that as drying progresses, farms further and further east will have to consolidate and become larger in order to remain viable. Unless farmers turn to irrigation or otherwise adapt, they will have to turn from corn to wheat or some other more suitable crop. Large expanses of cropland may fail altogether, and have to be converted to western-style grazing range. Water supplies could become a problem for urban areas.” Climate change has moved the 100th meridian west climatic divide from its historical position (solid line) 140 miles eastward (dotted line) in recent decades. MODIFIED FROM SEAGER ET AL. EARTH INTERACTIONS, 2018 e360.yale.edu

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1065185)	4/13/2018 10:04:26 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wharf Rat Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578141

I just came back from Iceland. One of the tours I took was beneath a glacier. The tour guide was a Phd in Geoscience and had some other degrees in various sciences. He said that everyone in Iceland believes in Climate Change. For them there is no debate. They are living it. They live off of glacial runoff and they are watching their main glacier melt away. It will be gone in a hundred years and their whole energy infrastructure will have to be rethought. Our tour guide was in Iceland because he's doing some studies on the glacier there, including ice coring. He says he'd studied ice cores and the reports from over 800,000 years of data, which show conclusively the acceleration in atmospheric CO2 content over the last 100 years. Prior to that, variability was in control statistically and moved up and down very slowly. The evidence is overwhelming and multi-disciplinary. The people closest to the epicenter of changes see it first hand and have no room for academic disbelief like yours. People who are emotional and resort to ad hominem attacks usually are the ones who's IQ is not high enough to sustain a debate and so they resort to childish outbursts to compensate. With every post, you show people here your lack of self-control and your lack of intellect. Keep it coming. You make my points for me better than I do.