"Roger Coppock" wrote in message
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Yes! About the only way one can rap one's mind
about what is to come in the next couple of centuries
of anthropogenic greenhouse gas forced global
warming is to imagine New Orleans duplicated all
over our entire planet. It didn't have to happen,
Alastair, there was no need for it to happen. We
can still cut it short, if we act.

First, it is not going to take a couple of centuries. The summer Arctic ice
will not last past the next big El Nino, and even if the winter ice does
reform the albedo will have been changed because that is only affected by the
summer ice.

It is not inconceivable that there will be several major hurricanes next year,
with one of them hitting another major city such as Miami or Houston. Even if
the US is spared next year, what odds to you give on Miami not being destroyed
within five years? Even Landsea expects this to last 15 years.

The point is that there is no point in telling me we should act. The USA is
the key. Without action from America nothing will happen. Of course I am
accused of US bashing, but even Americans like yourself are caught in the same
trap. Like me you want change but there is nothing you can do to bring it
about until George W. Bush is converted from christianity to realism!

Cheers, Alastair.