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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 21:26:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
IIRC, the 'trends' have been measured as 1 degree celsius (1.8 F) over the
past [hundred I think] years.
(Dang, wish I had some sources; but I never kept my notes...)
The years might be way off, but it's definitely not more than 100; if
anything, then less.
> 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.
'Course they can. Sorry, I was forgot about that and I was wrong. I think Dave
mentioned that the lesson might've been different... maybe he's right. These
weren't lessons anyhow, but it was told me during a field trip, so maybe the
teacher didn't say the whole story. Or maybe I forgot. 'Twas a long time ago.
-Shiri
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