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Kelly Bert Manning <ua602@victoria.tc.ca> wrote in article
<Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1010604171244.15111A-100000@vtn1>...
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Tom Harris wrote:
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> Climate change is here, it is real and you better get used to it ...

THE ONLY THING CONSTANT ABOUT CLIMATE IS CHANGE - THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON
EVER SINCE THERE WAS AN ATMOSPHERE.  THE QUESTION, I, AND MANY OTHERS RAISE
IS, HOW MUCH, IF ANY, OF IT IS DUE TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES.

THE SEA LEVEL HAS BEEN RISING NATURALLY SINCE THE END OF THE LAST ICE AGE,
ALTHOUGH ITS RATE OF RISE HAS SLOWED IN RECENT MILLENNIA.  THE MALDIVES ARE
SINKING DUE TO LOCAL POLLUTION AND POOR COASTLINE CONSTRUCTION PLANNING
(SEE OUR ESSAY ON THIS AT http://www.iosphere.net/~tharris/Ham-GW-2000.htm)
- IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WEST'S CONSUMPTION OF FOSSIL FUELS,
ALTHOUGH THE MALIDIVIANS WOULD LIKE US TO THINK IT IS AS THIS WOULD HELP
CONVINCE US TO GIVE THEM BILLIONS IN COMPENSATION.

because
> it will get much worse(storms more destructive than Hurricane Andrew
> happening regularly, places like the Maldives and the Florida Keys
> disappearing under high tide).
> 
> Apart from crop losses due to shifting climate patterns, lost seashore
> real estate and storm damage the political climate will heat up as people
> get on anything that will float and try to mover where there is food and
> dry land to stand one. If you think that migration is unlikely think back
> to the depopulation of Ireland in the 1800s, where half the population
got
> on sailing ships(4 million people) over a decade.
> 
> 
THIS IS MORE DAVID SUZUKI NONSENSE (DR. SUZ WAS A GENETICIST, REMEMBER, AND
HAS NO SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMATE, DESPITE HIS GURU-LIKE CONFIDENCE IN
THE "RIGHT-NESS" OF HIS POINT OF VIEW - TRY QUESTIONING HIM ON HIS BASIC
SCIENCE AT A PUBLIC PRESENTATION SOMETIME.  I DID AND HE JUST GOT MAD,
ACCUSING THOSE WHO DISAGREED WITH HIM AS BEING ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALIST.). 
AGAIN, PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT
http://www.iosphere.net/~tharris/Ham-GW-2000.htm OR ANY ONE OF A NUMBER OF
ESSAYS WE HAVE WRITTEN ON THIS TOPIC AT http://www.iosphere.net/~tharris > 
>