RE: Nuclear Power, Trivializing Global Warming

["Robert Yoss" <ryoss@MCW.EDU>]

Looks like we don't have to wait for the future, it's already having an

impact.  Refer to the AP article today.  Note at the end, there is more

to come.

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_CHALLENGE_I?SITE=APWE

B&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT



Bob Yoss

ryoss@mcw.edu



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Cc: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; Howard Long; John_Sukosky@DOM.COM; maury

Subject: Re: Nuclear Power, Trivializing Global Warming



6/1/04 11:36:27 AM, maury <maury@webtexas.com> wrote:



......

>A principal scientific question still centers on:  if and to what

extent 

observed climate changes are anthropogenic.

>>My conclusion from the balance of available evidence is simply that

the 

anthropogenic component of total >variance in climate change is trivial.

>===========================

>John_Sukosky@DOM.COM wrote:

>

>> Ruth and Howard,

>>

>> What makes you so sure this is a hoax?........ 

=========

Dear Ruth, Howard, and all:



NONE of the folks on Radsafe are climatologists [to the best of my

knowledge]. 

There is obvious and substantial expertise on all aspects of ionizing

and non-

ionizing radiation,  and most folks here have a stake in sane societal

attitudes 

toward nuclear technologies. 



Why should anyone on this list be trivializing the potential

environmental 

impacts of global warming, stating that salt water intrusion into

Florida canals 

has more impact than global warming ever would as Ruth stated? The

greenhouse 

effect on climate is something that once it begins is likely to have 

accelerating, synergistic components. Melting snowpack extent all over

the 

Northern hemisphere [which is already being observed] will decrease

albedo and 

speed up heat absorption by the earth. Once begun, global warming will

have a 

time component of hundreds, if not thousands of years before it can be

reversed. 

When the oceans rise by another 10" by 2100 [consensus estimate today]

cyclones 

sweeping into the Bay of Bengal will kill thousands more in poor nations

like 

Bangladesh. Should this be trivialized? Humanity has embarked on an

experiment of 

global dimensions in releasing carbon to the atmosphere via combustion

in a few 

hundred years which it took nature hundreds of millions of years to

store in the 

earth. 







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