> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Rinehart
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 1:05 PM
> To: 'nanfa_at_aquaria.net'
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Want a really scary scenario?
>
> Jeff - You could always set up shop between the two of them here in SC.
> How
> many places can you drive 2 hours in one direction and be in the mountains
> or 2 hours in the other and be at the coast?
>
> Chip :-)
> in SC
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey Fullerton [SMTP:tcmajorr_at_westol.com]
> > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 2:26 AM
> > To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> > Subject: NANFA-- Want a really scary scenario?
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:20:15 -0400
> > > From: "Crail, Todd"
> > > Subject: NANFA-- Sorta OT: A little info on the Office of the
> Interior
> > >
> > > Think the Office of the Interior has made a few poor choices
> concerning
> > > balancing ecology and industry...? Check this out:
> > >
> >
> > Wow, A real life Captain Planet eco villian!
> >
> > But we may need to burn all the fossil fuels and anything else
> > combustable we can get our greedy little hands on if the latest twist on
> > the "Global Warming" issue comes to pass. A rather ominous article in
> > the current issue of Discover about cold water from the melting polar
> > caps overwhelming the Gulf Stream and plunging Europe and parts of the
> > US into another "mini" ice age like the one at the onset of the Colonial
> > Era.
> >
> > Our country's early history - the terrible winter at Valley Forge,
> > Washington's men struggling to break the ice impeding the crossing of
> > the Delaware and the infamous "Year Without a Summer" in the early 1800s
> > in which there were massive crop failures in New England and in Europe
> > the dark and stormy atmosphere was captured for posterity when Mary
> > Shelly penned "Frankenstein" - just think of all those gloomy black and
> > white films with the clouds and lightening!
> >
> > The slant of the article points a finger at us as the cause, but drastic
> > climate changes related to this phenomenom have occured several times
> > before during recorded history and it's doubtful that the population
> > levels of preindustrial cultures like the Roman Empire could have that
> > kind of impact. The climate change did have a profound impact on some
> > early civilizations including Rome which may have been overwhelmed by
> > poorer harvests and influxes of refugees- "barbarians" trying to escape
> > to warmer climes.
> >
> > The fact that we survived the last such episode suggests we will
> > probably manage to survive future ones too. But it could be rough for us
> > - both economically and ecologically. More so than the simple rising
> > temperature scenarios that proponents of global warming have been wooing
> > about for years. Cold is far more stressful to most life forms - esp
> > humans than a transition to a warmer planet.
> >
> > Still not likely to be the end of the world as we know it; but possibly
> > bad enough to make Ray Wolff quit Wisconsin! Guess maybe I should think
> > about buying a parcel of land in the south. It will be hard to choose
> > between Moon or Casper as future next door neighbors!
> >
> > Jeff
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