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I read about this in saturday's Independent. It's hardly news but I was shocked to read met projections which predict that the Alps may be a snow free zone in just 50 years.
That said, the article was anomalous. It suggests that melting ice caps from the Artic will cool the Atlantic drift, thus creating a climate in the UK similar to that of North Canada. If that's the case, I would have thought the Alps would be safe...
Thoughts?
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
moot_point
, I think we don't fully understand what is going to happen.
I'm not at all convinced that the climate is changing
because of human influence
although I would certainly not suggest that we should operate under any
other
assumption.
The weather and climate is just such a huge crazy manifold non-linear system that while it is easy to observe change happening, I don't think it's possible to easily predict what will happen.
So, get green, save fuel, don't use hydrocarbons, do all the stuff it's good to do and then sit back and see what really happens.
My money's on a big Banksian "out-of-context problem" popping up just when we least expect it, making global warming all rather incidental. And that doesn't mean Avian flu...!!
P.S. "In Iain Banks' book Excession, he drops a term: "Out-Of-Context Problem." An Out-Of-Context Problem is one that is so unexpected that effective countermeasures are effectively inconceivable (at least at the time).
Think about how a 'cargo cult' would respond if their first contact with the larger world was full-scale nuclear war. They would quite simply die."
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