[Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change

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                    to   Terrapreta List          from   Lewis L Smith

I am perplexed that people are still discussing the reality and causes of 
Global Warming, not to "fine tune" our understanding of a natural phenomenon, but 
as if it were still in the stage of a mere scientific conjecture.   Obviously 
GW   has various causes, but obviously the increase in combustion since the 
Industrial Revolution is an important one, especially on an incremental basis. 
And obviously GW is going to have a serious impact on humanity. So we had 
better "get off our duffs" and do something more than just talk about it.

You do not need a PhD or ice cores from Greenland in order to be
convinced that Global Warming is for real. Here are some simple things one 
can do
which only cost a modest amount of money and effort —

     [1]          Go to  Miami Beach and take a tour boat around the bay at
high tide. There are 21 islands in the bay. Most of them have luxury houses 
on
them, built decades ago and each equipped with a fixed pier for small craft.
Normally the walkway of such a pier should be 12 to 18" above the water at a
normal high tide, in latitudes where the tide is shallow. Nowadays at high 
tide, as you will observe, the water is lapping at the underside of the 
walkways.

     [2]          Go to Glacier National Park. They have 11 glaciers plus
photos of where the glaciers used to be, going back maybe 70 years. Compare 
the
photos with where the glaciers are now.

     [3]          Go to Alaska and visit the farmers who are getting two
crops a summer of this and that. Alaska has had permanent residents for at 
least
12,000 years [with a very good oral history] and the Weather Bureau for about
one hundred [with good records]. Nobody in this entire history has ever 
gotten
two crops of anything before.

     [4]          Go to the Alaska north coast and see the houses and piers
destroyed by spring storms which stir up the sea, because the ice is 
beginning to melt weeks earlier than it used to.

     [5]          Go to northern Michigan and talk to the people who are 
raising vegetables where they couldn't in their childhood, because the weather 
then was
too cold.

     [6]          Go to the New England coastline at low tide and look for
rocks with a ring of discoloration around the upper part. This is where a 
normal
high tide [eight to ten feet] used to stop. Then come back at high tide to 
observe that the rings are under water.

Yes, Virginia, we have a problem.

What people of good will, intelligence and knowledge can argue about is who
does what to whom, when, where, why and for how much, in order to fix this
problem. 

But please, let us not be ostriches about its existence or one of its primary 
causes. The possible consequences of its worsening are just two horrendous.

Cordially.   ###



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