Have any of you guys in Florida seen this program on the Discovery Channel about Global Warming with Tom Brokaw?
Basically they say that with global warming the ice caps, etc are all melting RAPIDLY. Oceans are rising A LOT each year. They anticipate that all homes on the east coast within 500 feet of the ocean will be under water in 50 yrs or so. They also predict that ALL of FL will be under water in the not so distant future. We here in the Northeast dont fare any better. They theorize that NY CITY and Boston will be under water too. Not to mention some other entire countries around the world will be under water. (Esp in the India area / island countries, etc). They showed some small island country already had lost 1/2 of the country to the ocean. They say these countries will 100% disappear under the ocean like Atlantis.
They say storms will continue to grow in strength due to the rising temp of the oceans waters (Hurricanes fueled by warm water... warmer water = stronger canes. Stronger canes can also spin stronger tornadoes. Tornadoes are not predictable or forecast a wee out but come on quickly, etc etc)
They claimed all this is not just based on speculation or on zealous environmentalists but real scientific data They go thru some specific reasoning... the Amazon not getting enough rainfall, too much CO2 in the atmosphere, (mainly from pollution, etc). These scientists say they have been measuring how much of the polar caps / ice bergs, etc have been melting over the years and say it is alarming. Also how much the ocean temps have been rising over the recent past and say that too is alarming.
Too bad they never said anything about the YOUNGER DRYAS era.
Warming, then a cold snap.
Around 14,000 years ago (about 13,000 radiocarbon years ago), there was a
rapid global warming and moistening of climates, perhaps occurring within the space of only a few years or decades. In many respects, this phase seems to have resembled some of the earlier interstadials that had occurred so many times before during the glacial period. Conditions in many mid-latitude areas appear to have been about as warm as they are today, although many other areas - whilst warmer than during the Late Glacial Cold Stage - seem to have remained slightly cooler than at present.
Forests began to spread back, and the ice sheets began to retreat. However, after a few thousand years of recovery, the Earth was suddenly plunged back into a new and very short-lived ice age known as the Younger Dryas. Although the Younger Dryas did not affect everywhere in the world, it destroyed the returning forests in the north and led to a
brief resurgence of the ice sheets. This map by D. Peteet shows the possible distribution of Younger Dryas cooling around the world. The main cooling event that marks the beginning of the Younger Dryas seems have occurred within less than 100 years, according to Greenland ice core data (Alley et al. 1993). After about 1,300 years of cold and aridity, the Younger Dryas seems to have ended in the space of only a few decades (various estimates from ice core climate indicators range from 20 - 70 years for this sudden transition) when conditions became as warm as they are today. Around half of the warming seems to have occurred in the space of a single span of 15 years, according to the latest detailed analyses of the Greenland ice core record (Taylor et al. 1997).
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.htmlGlobal Warming is happening, but ALL scientists CANNOT say if it the result of Human invention.
