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   From: dave-no_spam@unixhome.net   
      
   "Determinator"  wrote in message   
   news:AQcZh.13539$JF6.6142@edtnps90...   
   > Canuck57 wrote:   
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   >> In Canada, warmer will increase life.  Decrease the hardship of living.   
   >> Just like it did in the medieval warming period where Europe population   
   >> and civilization grew.  So lets hope it really is warming as 3-5km of ice   
   >> covered Toronto in the last great ice age, but dinosaurs roamed the north   
   >> shores of NWT and the Alaska North slope 65 million years ago.   
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   > certain hardships will decrease... but other hardships can increase. For   
   > example the farming in the southern most part of Alberta could lose 10%   
   > annual moisture. We've just come off a several years of drought. are we   
   > ready for even hotter dryland farning conditions.   
   >   
   > BTW southern Manitobia could get 10% more moisture in the same prediction   
      
   While what you say may be true, some areas will likely fair better than   
   others, the net effect is more arable land.  Weather cycles, even in ones   
   lifetime may have absolutely nothing to do with global warming which will   
   take many centuries to change if due to man.  Any sudden change is more   
   likely from other sources like the sun which has a far larger influence than   
   does man.  During the dirty 30's for example the world was believed to be   
   cooling, go figure.  The history of the earth does however substantiate if   
   warming is on a permanent rise we can expect more vegetation which means the   
   sky isn't falling.   
      
   It also could be just nature, in fact likely.  Mars polar regions are   
   receding, which coincidence to earth?  Not likely.  Not likely either to be   
   the emissions of a SUV (Suzuki's or mine) or home heating system in Canada   
   that caused it on Mars.  But that fact will not sell junk science.   
      
   There are those that believe, and history supports it that CO gases on the   
   rise are a by-product of life and rise accordingly.  In fact, it is very   
   plausible that CO increases are driven by increased activity in life cycles   
   and not driving the weather in a significant way.   
      
   For anyone to conclusively say what will happen, and what will not happen to   
   the existing land base is really guesswork at best by mankind.  Heck, we   
   have difficulty with a 3 day weather forecast: what makes us think we can   
   predict 100 years?  Arrogance?  Fruit Fly experiments?   
      
   There are enough cracks in the global warming "doom" stories that it is at   
   best, very much incomplete science.  Perhaps even Orson Wells kind of   
   science.  If anything, some junk scientist may actually cause issues by   
   seeding the atmosphere with chemicals and make the doom happen.   
      
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