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ICY WARNING FOR LONDON & NEW YORK
A top scientist is warning that there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years - enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge cities like London and New York. Sir David King, the governmentâs chief scientific adviser, believes the most recent science bore out the worst predictions, reports The Guardian. Records show that at the peak of the ice age 12,000 years ago, the sea was 150 metres below its current level. (These records were extracted from Cold Storage Inc., a ârealâ old accounting firm :) Sir David says: "Ice melting is a relatively slow process but is speeding up. (I hope he means this coming winter as well.) "When the Greenland ice cap goes, the sea level will rise six to seven metres. When Antarctica melts it will be another 110 metres." (This sounds like it could happen next Tuesday at 10am :) "I am sure that climate change is the biggest problem that civilisation has had to face in 5,000 years." (Besides Kerry & Edwards) Sir David was speaking at the launch of a scientific expedition to Cape Farewell in the Arctic, which aims to raise awareness of climate change in students. He said that the realisation of the scale of the crisis was what prompted him to say in January that climate change was a bigger threat than global terrorism. Maybe al-Qaida will simply freeze to death and or problems shall be over. This schlub has been out in the snow too long The Ski industry should boost earnings through the roof on this report! Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-07-14 |
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