Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, I think that only Michael Crichton and Maec Small would agree with you, but fortunately, Crichton is dead. :-( Jerry Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > Maybe we have it all wrong. Those photographers worrying about cameras > in cold weather are on the right track. > > A new analysis of the cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the > past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climate > will settle into a permanent colder state in the next millenium with > expanded ice sheets at both poles. > > The authors, Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh and > William T. Hyde of the University of Toronto, used climate models and > other techniques to assess the chances that the world is witnessing > the final stages of a 50-million-year transition from a planet with a > persistent warm climate and scant polar ice to one with greatly > expanded ice sheets at both poles. > > The paper goes on to propose that humans would be likely to avert such > a slide into a long big chill by adding greenhouse gases to the > atmosphere. Sure, Holland, Denmark, Florida, and Manhattan will be > under water in the short term but eventually will dry out as the Polar > ice caps grow. > > Go ahead and crank those Hummers up to full power (if you can afford > it) and cherish coal fired power plants. You will be helping the > environment in the long term. Burn (fuel) baby, burn! And keep those > digital camera batteries warm. > > Larry Z >