On 26 Feb 2007 08:01:51 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:



Key word, thermohaline currents.

Rush Limbaugh and a few others have been hooting and scratching every
time there's been a blast of cold weather this winter, rushing to
denounce any evidence of climate change. In fact, the diminishing ice
at the poles disrupts some of the currents that have moderated winter
weather throughout much of the northern hemisphere throughout the
realatively brief instant when there has been human civilization on
this planet. Severe winters are part of a global warming scenario,
offset by more extreme summers. It's the average temeprature, not the
daily temperature, that's important.

Interesting link:

http://www.mindfully.org/Air/2003/Pe...ange1oct03.htm


Ramifications for boaters: climate change, (whether man-made or not),
will alter the nature of fish in various waters, possibly decrease the
number of fish in some, change the types of sea life we observe when
boating, make the water warm enough to swim in previously frigid
areas, and generally have a profound impact on the entire aquatic
ecosystem. If climate change continues at its present pace, our
grandkids will be experiencing vastly different boating conditions
than we do now. And of course there's Florida, a major boating center
in the US- under some models a lot of Florida will simply disappear.

And here's another interesting site with an article on the same subject
matter. I don't listen to Rush as much as you do, so I don't know what he's
saying. You are correct that climate change will affect boaters.

http://archive.patriotpost.us/pub/07-08_Digest/
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."