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Originally Posted by 427 S/O
Al Gore's (far left liberal) claim that ocean levels will rise 20 feet thanks to global warming is PURE trash, IOW..he's a complete idiot. Sad, but there are folks right here who actually believe it!!.
Try this little experiment. Put water and ice into a bowl. Make sure that the water is right up to the brim of the bowl. When the ice melts the water will not rise and overflow the bowl. Don't get a government-funded scientist to do this for you. He will somehow come up with a different result, so do it yourself.
You GW believers can then mail AG and ask him why this is...........
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Perry,
I think what the concern is; the pole ice (ancient snow pack) now above sea level.
In other words, fill a glass of water and suspend an ice cube above the glass with a couple of toothpicks. When the cube melts, the glass will flow over. By how much the rise, well that depends on the size of the cube, I guess.
It's pretty hard for us Joe-six-pack guys to really know just what will happen. But I, like a lot of folks, have been looking over my shoulder since real scientists far before Gore-the-spokesperson pointed out the ugly possibility.
Personally, I don't want to be wrong on this. Even if it can't be proven. If it
never happens and we take extraordinary painful steps, we'll still never know. I feel a tug on my short-hairs. What leverage, it never happens and some folks could cheer, "we won, we won!". They can cheer at the end of "never".
But I'm kind of geeky. My brother is an amateur astronomer and I even have a couple of small scopes. I used to watch NOVA Cosmos when Carl Sagen was still alive. There they discussed why Venus was so hot and why other planets had different atmospheres with wild temperatures. I think I understand "greenhouse effect" regarding other planets
might affect earth.
No doubt,
some of the GW science is sound thinking. But the science of predicting tommorrows weather is sound, and they don't even always get that right. But they' seem to be getting better.
Like some soul said, "We don't inherit earth from our parents; we borrow it from our children."
So now it's "for the chillen". S**t. Feel that tug?
Wes
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