[SBE] Global Warming

[Edwin Bukont]

I am curious, do elementary and high school textbooks still note that at one time the sahara desert was actually a rain forest?  i wonder what man made event caused that catastrophe?  =)Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT Comm-Struction and Services LLC P.O. Box 629;  Bel Air, MD 21014 USA V- 410.879.5567 F- 240.368.1265 C- 240.417.2475 ebukont at msn.com Member: IEEE, SBE, AES, PMI Digital Media and Power Systems Integrators. A Harris Broadcast Channel Partner > From: A9xw at cs.com> Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 12:44:33 -0400> To: sbe at sbe.org> Subject: Re: [SBE] Global Warming> > In a message dated 5/3/2008 11:56:30 PM Central Daylight Time, br at telcen.com > writes:> > > > > > Global warming will tend to make weather more extreme, > > Sorry, not true. HIgher winds cause white caps which lower ocean temperature > because they reflect sunlight/heat, causing cooling. Storms are the release of > heat into the atmosphere which dissipates into space because it does not > reach the surface and blocks sun light from reacing the surface. Colder surface > temepratures reduce thermal risers that cause storms. It is a self leveling > system. Thepast two years of very low major storms are the result of La Nina > cooling the Pacific ocean that in turn reduces the global termperatures. Both > north and south temperate zones were significantly cooler and record low temps and > snow levels all over the northern hemisphere have been the result of La Nina. > This is a normal long cycle. Sun spot level is also an indicator of warm or > cold global temperatures. The long period of low sun spot activity coincided > with the "mini ice age" that lasted 400 years and began to end in the late > 1700's. A mellinium ago Greenland was Green, there were settlements with crops and > cattle (sheep, goats) that were destroyed by global cooling that froze the > open lands under snow and ice. You can visit the relilcs/ruins of houses and > other stone buildings there. Habitat would have also had to have trees and otgher > burnable vegitation on Greenland, nearly all of which is gone today. So, what > is the normal condition of Greenland? Green and warm, or covered in ice? > Both, its a long term climatic cycle unaffected by man. We can't even predict > a tornado with any accuracy, never managed to destroy one, can make no dent > in any hurricane, so what could we possible do to influence the entire globe > other than reduce cow and sheep flatulance to repair the hole in the ozone over > antarctica that directly coincided with the increase in methane levels in New > Zeland, Australia and Argintina. Not a lot of CFC's from aerosol cans of > which 95% were in the northern hemisphere. The amount of civilization and land > below 50 degrees south is miniscule vs above 50 degres north. Except for teh > relativly narrow gap between the Antarctic penninsula and Tierra Del Fuego, there > is nothing to moderate the ocean currents and storms of the oceans that > surround the south pole. In the northern hemisphere, the atlantic and Pacific > oceans are blocked by large land masses, mountains and only small passages into the > arctic ocean, The moderates and reduces the oceanic effects. Snow and ice > accumulate on land much faster than on moving sea water, not to mention the > lower freezing temperature of sea water vs fresh (non salty) water. Lastly, the > northern hemisphere is slowly riswing having shed a two mile think ice sheet of > the last ice age that lowered the entire continent by several hundred feet > from the weight. That allows more run off of ground water and raises ocean levels > a tiny bit, enough to cause erosion of shorelines and ice shelves. Now where > inthe GW datsa is that taken into account? > > Henry > > </HTML>> _______________________________________________> SBE mailing list> To unsubscribe, go to http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/options/sbe> _______________________________________________> SBE at sbe.org> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/sbe