[meteorite-list] New Theory: Global Warming Caused byTunguskaEvent / climate change - ~ot

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Mar 17 13:26:26 2006
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B31508BF8_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

Hi Rob,

Well, 'Worse' meaning, the entire world's landmass that is currently at
5 meters or below, above sea level, most probably won't be .... I'd say
that would be a start.... :)

Of course you might argue it won't effect 'us', but then why do we
bother having kids?

They key at the moment is 'they' just have no idea what will happen and
when, the theories seem to range from 'global cooling' to 'complete
catastrophe' unless they can model it in enough detail, there are just
too many factors to get answers.

The earth is warmer now than it has been for many million of years, and
the rate of warming is accelerating. - will it be a problem?, who knows.

Can we do anything about it? Probably not, but unless we have some idea
about what is going on we will never know if there is something we
should be doing. Countires need to start thinking about planning for sea
level rise and especially air stream changes, since it often takes many
decades to change country wide infrastructure, - for example people
still seem intent on building on flood plains.

Whilst I don't attribute it to global warming, Here in Southern Britain
we are currently facing the worst drought for 80 years, rainfall is way
way below average, and we have a hosepipe ban in place (and yes it is
still winter!), I can imagine what could happen if global warming really
did happen...


Best,
Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com [mailto:ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:55 PM
To: mark ford; meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] New Theory: Global Warming Caused
byTunguskaEvent / climate change

Mark suggested:

> On the same note, I invite as many people as possible to install this
> screen saver application: http://bbc.cpdn.org/ it has been produced
> by the BBC and is using distributed computing (i.e our own domestic
> computers) to accurately model the earths climate hopefully they will
> get a better insight into what really is going to happen when the
> climate gets worse.

I was in agreement with you up until those last five words...
"Worse" than what? Or more specifically, worse by what metric and
what timescale? For example, I would consider an ice age worse than
the present (as far as the earth's current life forms are concerned),
but I don't think anyone is too concerned about it happening in the
next century. --Rob
Received on Fri 17 Mar 2006 03:46:21 AM PST