Just in from Copenhagen

[Lachlan09]

It snows here in the Gulf, in Oman.

[Zardoz]

I recall how in the early '70's the "Global Cooling" fad was just heating up. It was said that combustion emissions were rising up and choking out the warming radiance of the sun and we would soon suffer the consequences of it with lower average global temperatures. If you'd've asked me at the time I'd've said it was a lot of hot air. But nowadays I'm of the mind to say the cooler heads ought to prevail if we can just use enough ozone depleting hairspray and light up a good Cuban cigar with an alcohol lighter! Provided of course that we only melt enough antarctic glaciers to give the penguins more nesting ground while floating some polar bears southward to feed them on the overage of penguin hatchlings thereby preventing the loss of that apex predator! Go Willie! (Orca)

I always wonder whatever happened to the 'global cooling', 'coming ice age' thing? There were a lot of articles and movies and books, fiction and non-fiction, based around it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_...fiction_novel)

But I guess we had other stuff to be scared of in those days, and nobody could figure out how to make a buck off of it!

[Inchessi]

Look, a crowd has formed to see the elusive creature.

[morrison]

:butt:
If all of the ice in the Arctic ocean melted, our average ocean levels would FALL slightly.
If all the polar ice caps, north & south melted, we would have massive rains all over the earth and only slightly higher ocean levels. A foot maybe. BUT, the tides would increase substantially!

I filled a LARGE open top tank with water, marked the height and froze the water. The level rose significantly. Upon thawing the level was lower than the original depth. Evaporation took some volume from the total amount.

It's time to party in case there isn't enough ice for the drinks by morning.:beer:int:



btw: don't forget the axis tilt wobble and the north south polarity fields suddenly switching