Vatican calls for global authority on economy

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

I don't buy the ancient's being primitive as portrayed by the History Channel either. In fact, the ancient people were way smarter than our civilization of people currently are....except for a select chosen few of elitists.

Some think that we will be going into another ice age soon...what say you?

I think our massive production of carbon gasses has forestalled the next Ice Age if only temporarily. There are a lot of complex variables. Who knows for sure?

Losing the Polar ice caps would flood the world like Kevin Costner had asserted. It probably wouldn't even be all that "bad," overall. Greenland was covered with a lush temperate forest just 1 million years ago. Now those trees are crushed beneath a mile thick ice sheet.

Also, generally speaking, warmer is wetter. Warm air holds more moisture than cool air. It was the Ice Ages that largely contributed to the creation of the Sahara Desert. Plate Tectonics plays a role as well. The loss of the Tethys Sea (the Mediterranean/Black Sea/Caspian Sea basins closed off an important flow that kept North Africa and Southwest Asia green in the past.

Another Ice Age is probably inevitable. That's the real threat and not "global warming."

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I think our massive production of carbon gasses has forestalled the next Ice Age if only temporarily. There are a lot of complex variables. Who knows for sure?

Losing the Polar ice caps would flood the world like Kevin Costner had asserted. It probably wouldn't even be all that "bad," overall. Greenland was covered with a lush temperate forest just 1 million years ago. Now those trees are crushed beneath a mile thick ice sheet.

Also, generally speaking, warmer is wetter. Warm air holds more moisture than cool air. It was the Ice Ages that largely contributed to the creation of the Sahara Desert. Plate Tectonics plays a role as well. The loss of the Tethys Sea (the Mediterranean/Black Sea/Caspian Sea basins closed off an important flow that kept North Africa and Southwest Asia green in the past.

Another Ice Age is probably inevitable. That's the real threat and not "global warming."

*** Correction!! : "Losing the Polar ice caps would NOT flood the world as Kevin Costner had asserted."

[Sister Alvear]

wow...you guys always get over my head...ha...

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by pelathais

*** Correction!! : "Losing the Polar ice caps would NOT flood the world as Kevin Costner had asserted."

Somehow I knew you meant this instead of the first post.

I read somewhere that even if the polar ice caps did melt, it might add 2 feet of water to the coast lines....

[Jay]

It might add two feet, but the water level would still drop as ice has more volume than liquid water does. Thus more water would be added, and the level would fall. It would likely be the only time in history that you see something recede by adding to it.