[dba-Tech] OT: Global Warming

Global warming is not longer in serious dispute.  The controversy is
over what effect human activity has on global warming, and if it  does
whether or not something can be done to reverse it or mitigate the
effects of our activities, and, most importantly,  if we think we can do
something about it, how much money should be spent doing it and by whom.

Rocky



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Subject: [dba-Tech] OT: Global Warming
From: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, July 27, 2012 8:17 am
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>

Given the high IQ base of members of this list, I would assume that
virtually everyone here accepts the ugly facts of global warming. But
the
facts just grew even uglier. See
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html for a
particularly grim portrait of the (formerly huge) Greenland glacier, now
a
mere wisp of ice.

I've read, here and there, of the consequences of a rise in the oceans
of a
mere meter: sayonara, NYC (especially Manhattan), Florida, much of
Boston
and Japan. Were I a land-owner in any of these jurisdictions, I'd be
thinking seriously of dumping my ownings asap. Perhaps fortunately, I
don't
own land anywhere, so for me personally this is not a problem; however,
the
ancillary effects will definitely touch me, and millions of others
located
far from any ocean.

Couple this with the drought levels in the corn-and-soybean states
(Ohio,
Michigan, etc.) and we can anticipate a huge price increase in beef,
chicken and other meats. If I were wealthy enough to own a large
freezer, I
would definitely think about buying as much of the aforementioned as
possible. Most (North American) livestock is fed with the by-products of
corn and soy, and this disastrous heat-wave and drought are going to
cause
huge price increases. Not even the vegans among us are immune to this,
IMO.

-- 
Arthur
Cell: 647.710.1314

Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
 -- Niels Bohr
But sometimes it's easier than others.
 -- Arthur Fuller
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