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Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 10 May 2000 21:09:49 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Shiri Dori writes:
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> I give on the icecaps, ok? If they all melt at once, we're all going wading.
> You still have to show that they're all going to melt, though. Won't take much,
> a few degrees higher average temp should do the trick, but the trends we see
> are measured in hundreths of a degree.
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> > This is well known. Don't know about you guys, but I used to live on a
> > mountain which was 700 meters (not feet) high. There were fossils of sea-
> > creatures all over the place, not only loose ones but some that were on huge
> > slabs of stone. What our environmental studies teachers (it was a mandatory
> > subject in my elementary school, all through 6th grade) taught about this was
> > that whole area used to be covered with sea-water. I don't know if it was due
> > to the fact that there were no icecaps; but that sounds reasonable.
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> And what that teaches me is that your teachers don't know squat about mountain
> formation. The elevation of the area at the time that the seabed is laying down
> fossils has little or nothing to do with the elevation of that same area now.
> Mountains can be thrust up thousands of meters during the formation process.
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> If that's the best you can do, pack it in. Well, that's not fair. Your SCHOOL
> should pack it in, it's using teachers that are clueless.
Many grade school teachers don't know squat about science, I once got an
email from a concerned parent because her son's teacher was telling
the students that the grand canyon was formed by a meteorite, as
opposed to the less obvious river....
However, if scientist can figure out the rate of uplift of the the mountain
they can plot the sea level at that point in history. That sea level could
have been higher then the modern. So maybe the teachers portrayed an
incorrect analysis of what was going on, if they read that sea level there was
higher than modern or something. I refer you to fig2 on that factsheet(sorry
i keep bringing it up, it's the reference i know best) http://pubs.usgs.gov/factsheet/fs2-00/
-chris
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