London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea

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simply move the populations out of coastal areas.

Just think of all the new beach front development we can come up with. 

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hahaha . . . True, but I'll miss Ray Nagin making all of his silly New Orleans comments once it is under water for good.

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They'll rebuild new orleans in texas or something once the icecaps melt and the seas rise 111 meters

Nah, I'm thinking West Virginia!  hahaha

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All I know is I have a winter coat and a bottle of sun screen lotion available.  So, whomever is right on the issue, I'll be prepared. 

Honestly though, the gloom-and-doomers rarely take into account that the Earth itself is pretty stubborn.  If it can cool off a planet by violent volcanic action, then "man" is nothing to her.

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Here's another interesting threory:

"Greenhouse theory smashed by biggest stone"

A new theory to explain global warming was revealed at a meeting at the University of Leicester (UK) and is being considered for publication in the journal "Science First Hand". The controversial theory has nothing to do with burning fossil fuels and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

According to Vladimir Shaidurov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the apparent rise in average global temperature recorded by scientists over the last hundred years or so could be due to atmospheric changes that are not connected to human emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of natural gas and oil. Shaidurov explained how changes in the amount of ice crystals at high altitude could damage the layer of thin, high altitude clouds found in the mesosphere that reduce the amount of warming solar radiation reaching the earth's surface.

Shaidurov has used a detailed analysis of the mean temperature change by year for the last 140 years and explains that there was a slight decrease in temperature until the early twentieth century. This flies in the face of current global warming theories that blame a rise in temperature on rising carbon dioxide emissions since the start of the industrial revolution. Shaidurov, however, suggests that the rise, which began between 1906 and 1909, could have had a very different cause, which he believes was the massive Tunguska Event, which rocked a remote part of Siberia, northwest of Lake Baikal on the 30th June 1908.

The Tunguska Event, sometimes known as the Tungus Meteorite is thought to have resulted from an asteroid or comet entering the earth's atmosphere and exploding. The event released as much energy as fifteen one-megaton atomic bombs. As well as blasting an enormous amount of dust into the atmosphere, felling 60 million trees over an area of more than 2000 square kilometres. Shaidurov suggests that this explosion would have caused "considerable stirring of the high layers of atmosphere and change its structure." Such meteoric disruption was the trigger for the subsequent rise in global temperatures.

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And, let me use this as a great time to once again remind folks to take action on a personal level, and go out and plant some trees!

An interesting website was metioned on the radio this morning:  "Free Trees and Plants.com"

Looking through their selection, everything (and I mean everything) seems to cost just $6.95 (which is processing and shipping).  The site receives trees and plants from nurseries which have not sold, and gives them away to whomever orders them from the site.  Seems pretty interesting.  I saw a nice Dogwood listed which I might consider.