[Lowfer] Global cooling or warming???

[Chris Trask]

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> Funny, what happened to the so called global warming?
>

    It's progressing according to the model predictions.  As the northern
latitude ice melts, it will cool the atmosphere immediately above it.  This
will cause noticable cooling and violent storms for 10-20 years.  After the
bulk of the ice has melted, the atmospheric cooling will subside and the
subsequent warming will be fairly rapid.

    One noticable feature so far has been the southward shift of the jet
stream, which is primarily due to the colder atmosphere in the northern
latitudes.  This resulted in virtually no hurricane season this last year
due to shearing, and it is continuing in the form of unusually cold winter
conditions.

    Another feature is the significant drying of the southwest and other
regions.  The pool level of Lake Mead is presently 45 feet above the point
where they will have to turn off the dynamos due to lack of sufficient head.
And here in Arizona, we're drawing on ground water, some of which is over
10,000 years old by way of oxygen isotope analysis.  When the CAP (Central
Arizona Project) canal is shut off due to insufficient water in the Colorado
River, we'll only be able to support 4.3 million people, and we're already
over 6 million.  And that's if all other water resources are inumpaired.
When that happens and the ground water is depleted, you'll see more than
just simple water use restrictions out here.  They're already admitting that
turning agricultural land into subdivisions was a big mistake.

Chris Trask
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