http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3172144.ece


I have never read a more anti-American piece! The US and China are the biggest polluters??? How is that possible in the US? We have huge restrictions on our factories, if you can even find anyone still producing goods here. Most of the production has moved off shore to China or some other country that pays lower wages. We can't build factories here - they just get shut down. Whoever researched the US part and said we were the biggest polluters is clearly using data from four decades ago when we had polluting factories. I have worked for two large domestic manufacturers, and they are all about recycling, reusing, and reducing the amount of waste and emissions, and I'm certain every other manufacturer is doing the same stuff.

Down at the bottom, the author describes the effects of all of this damage...famine, starvation, submerging...across the entire world! Except in Europe - where tourism will be off AND winter sports will be effected. WTF???? (No one reads this, so I feel safe in using a little raw language...) What a biased, arrogant writer!

Now as far as the science of this piece, it kind of makes sense...and that is truly alarming. And the argument is better laid out here, especially with the oceans, and corals, and pH all accounted for. But IF Greenland melts as predicted, I believe the salinity of the ocean will drop and the Gulf Stream (and all other parts of that stream of cold, heavy water) will stop, or slow down momentarily in geologic terms. This will stop the atmospheric warming and produce cold and increased snow / glaciers in the far northern hemisphere. The seas at the equator would heat up, and the cool / warm water exchange would start up again. During this geologic time period, you'd have wide spread drought and much lower sea levels.

Don't ask me how long this would take...perhaps 1000's or tens of 1000's of years...who knows. But scientists have been trying to predict things for years, only to end up wrong or not having enough data to make accurate predictions.

The science in this piece sounds good, the scenario - frightening, and the predictions - wrong. Read it and let me know what you think...if anyone is out there!

Believe me, it's not higher sea levels we'll have to deal with...it's less fresh water.