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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Oh, yes---that "rapid" rise of 3.9 mm. Get your kayak out 
Now, if you can show me year by year data for the last 23,000 years and that the last 2 years are the largest rise in that time, then you'd have something. Unfortunately, Fred Flintstone didn't have an accurate ruler and the clay tablet he inscribed those numbers upon have crumbled. But since ocean levels rose 432 feet from 21,000 to 11,000 BC, I'd bet there were many, many years with an ocean rise of greater than 3.9 mm, again, all without the internal combustion engine.
BTW, which scientists????? Would those be the ones dependent upon government grants, journal acceptance of their articles, and university tenure to survive???? Yep, I thought so.
And I assume that the Milwaukee paper is referring to Lake Michigan having the lowest percentage freeze in decades. Which means there were previous decades with even less freezing. |
Well one of us is going to be correct and the other, NOT so correct. I HOPE that I am the NOT CORRECT person, because that would be better for humanity. But, who is correct will probably RESOLVE itself in about 10 years - I hope I live that long. Next summer is NOT that far away and should shed some light on this potential dilemma. .........Last summer had fires ALL over the West and 2 VERY large, costly, and deadly hurricanes here in Fl. I am betting that this coming summer will bring more hurricanes to Fl. and BIG problems to other parts of the US. Ca. got some needed snowpack recently, but I believe that I saw that some parts of Ca. are still in a drought. Lots of peeps in Ca. are going to be needing water and A/C this coming summer. And since the mudslides washed away many plants needed for grown cover, can new grown cover grow up this spring enough to hold the soil on hills and
topsoil needed for crops.....I would be CURIOUS to know what someone of great stature thinks would be the OPTIMUM population of the US. Have we PAST it? Is 360 million people about right? Or there is NO OPTIMUM, just whatever? Just let it KEEP climbing?