[Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi MMBTUPR,

Thanks for this set of observations.  I am remained of that skit played on "Saturday Night Live", with Mia Rudolph as the daughter of the fashion magnate, Donatella Versace, ...

Her way to handle those who cannot handle the obvious ....

"Okay, we understand you don't believe Global Climate Change and Global Warming is caused by Humans, NOW GET OOOOOUUUUT!!"

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MMBTUPR at aol.com<mailto:MMBTUPR at aol.com> 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 7:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change


                      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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