Re: Global warming at it again -- environmental discussion

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Subject: Re: Global warming at it again

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billvon

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Date Posted: 16:06:28 10/31/07 Wed
In reply to: Oropan 's message, "Global warming at it again" on 14:57:12 10/29/07 Mon

>Lowest hurricane season in 30 years!

Quick quiz. Will global warming:

1) make every hurricane stronger and every season worse than the last?

2) make every day warmer?

3) melt all the ice in Antarctica?

4) swamp Manhattan by 2030?

5) make it rain everywhere?

6) cause a drought everywhere?

Answer to all the above - no. It will make temperatures _slightly_ warmer. It will make the hottest days a bit warmer. It will make summer last a little longer. It will make some ice melt. It will make your average hurricane a bit stronger. In areas where high temperatures lead to drought, it will make droughts a bit worse. In areas where high temperatures mean more ocean evaporation and thus more rain, floods will be a bit worse.

That's something that people on both sides of the argument consistently miss. It's not just like "The Day After Tomorrow" and it's not "all hot air." The climate is warming, and our emissions have a huge influence on how much it warms. We can not rely on what weather patterns used to be like; they will change. (And yes, they would have changed anyway - but they're going to change a lot faster now.) But that doesn't mean the world is ending.

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It's been quite active here in the atlantic	jw	08:01:11 11/05/07 Mon