Cory wrote:
> In article <6bgjluF3994hbU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, spaz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>> I know it is horrible all over. Around here, the Wabash is two mils
out
>> either side of it's banks. The have lost houses where there had never
>> been
>> floods. Places on a non flood plane so had no insurance and now
flooded.
>> I hope they make the insurance companies do something or, a lot of
>> people will be in trouble.
>
> I had to snip everything, so go climb the thread if you have trouble
> remembering this, but remember that little town I told you about, Gays
> Mills, that has now flooded out twice in ten months?? The general
> consensus amongst townsfolk and the village trustees, after talking
> things over through the last couple of days, is that they ARE going to
> move the town after all. No final decision has been made yet, but they
> sound pretty resolute that this is what needs to happen.
>
> I think that it is the best thing for everyone who lives in that
> immediate area.
>
> There's an episode of THE WEST WING, which I watch quite a bit, where a
> glacier in Alaska melts and floods an entire town. People are stranded,
> have to be rescued, etc..
>
> A character named Josh innocently asks, after hearing about the flooding
> from the melted glacier: "Don't glaciers melt, like, once every million
> years or something like that?" The person who he was asking replies,
> "Yeah". In return, Josh says, "and this one decided to melt today?". I
> feel EXACTLY like that right now.
>
> Experts and local government officials, as well as local media, are
> saying that this flooding that has been happening in Wisconsin, Iowa,
> Illinois, Missouri, and other places, is a 500 year flood. THIS kind of
> catastrophic flood won't happen for another 500 years (there are also
> what are called 100 year floods, too), and it's happened during OUR
> lifetimes.
>
> Figure that out for me, please, because I'm having a hard time wrapping
> it around my brain.
>
It's called global warming. Because there is more heat in the
atmosphere,
(and the oceans), there is more energy to feed storms and there is a
greater capacity for the air to hold water. It might only be a tiny
change
in temperature, but there is an awful lot of air and water and the
mathematical models predicted more violent storms and more frequent
storms,... exactly what we're seeing.
Here in Canada lakes and rivers freeze over only a few weeks now
in winter.
The slight rise in average temperature drives also the maxima and minima
still further away from the average temperature making the extremes
greater
than they used to be, even cold extremes from time to time. In the far
north many species are at risk. The media has decided to focus on the
polar bear, but other arctic species are also at risk.
It follows our use of petroleum as a fuel, but also the population
of human
beings. there are morethan 6 billion people on the planet and that is
over
half of the people who have ever lived. Think of that for a second. Over
half the human being who have ever lived are alive and on the planet right
now! So statistically it's not unusual that we are alive in these times
and that our numbers are affecting the planet.
--
Peace,
Fred
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