There have been a few programs and articles, as of late, depicting the
Atlantic Conveyor Belt or Gulf Stream and how fresh water (flood of the
Hudson or Iceburgs) shuts it down when the temperature goes up too much.

http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/pld/hsm/reg_app/opln/conveyor_index.html
http://www.nsf.gov/nstw/98/meteor/frpt4/sld028.htm

We would go Ice Age in decades if it gets to that point (according to the
PBS special, or was it the discovery channel?).

Guy Avenell
www.hpto.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Mc Coy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'


> I remember reading artciles in the 70's that stated that we were heading
for another ice age if we did not start taking steps to preserve the
environment.  One of my grade school teachers even brought it up in an
ecology lesson.
> Now, the same groups who were projecting an ice age are clamoring about
global warming.
> So which is it?  Is it getting colder or hotter?  They can't decide.  But
over the last 30 years, temperatures have slightly declined.  Although the
past few have seen milder winters.
>
> jm
> >
> > From: Michael Berkowitz <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: 2002/05/15 Wed AM 09:51:21 EDT
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Global Warming Called 'Fairy Tale'
> >
> > Wirt (uncharacteristically misspeaks)
> >
> > < snipped >
> >
> > That's true. The number of scientists who believe that global warming is
> > *not* a threat is only slightly larger than the number of scientists who
> > believe that the earth was created 4004 years ago.
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Actually the biblical creation of the earth by Bishop Ussher is 4004 BC
or
> > 6005 years ago (remember no year zero) as this snippet from
> > http://www.uctaa.org/Essays/meditations/med020.html
> >
> > In the 1650s, James Ussher, (Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Irelan
d,
> > and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin) a noted churchman and
as a
> > scholar published his findings regarding the date of creation and other
> > biblical events. He determined the date of creation was Sunday 23
October
> > 4004 BC, and the date of many other events, such as that Adam and Eve
were
> > driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark
touched
> > down on Mt. Ararat on Wednesday 5 May 1491 BC. About ten years earlier,
> > exactly the same date of creation was established by John Lightfoot, the
> > Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, the difference being that he
was
> > able to establish the 9:00 am as the exact time of creation. [He did not
go
> > so far as to mention which time zone was applicable nor whether god was
> > still on daylight savings time that late in October.]
> >
> > Mike Berkowitz
> > Guess? Inc.
> >
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