Global Warming - From Inside the Globe

Bill Kendrick writes "The National Post reports that a team of American and Canadian researchers has found evidence of real global warming: the temperature of the Earth's crust is increasing at a remarkable rate. What's really interesting is that heat absorbed by rocks slowly permeates into the earth. By boring holes in the ground, they can tell how hot the earth was years ago, in a 'reading tree rings' fashion."

Comments

Re:Oh god, not again

[canadian_right]

Well actually, there are MORE people alive right now than all the people that have lived and died in all of history - so its not a big stretch to say that global warming can, in fact, affect that many people.

The Artic (North pole) is NOT frozen all year round, and the time that it is 'defrosted' has been increasing over the last few years which is causing all sorts of problems for polar bears which depend on the ice for their hunting.

Your little tale about all the wonderful changes global warming will bring is a pipe dream. No one knows for sure what will happen if the Earth warms up a few degrees. The main thing is that there will be MORE ENERGY. More energy means bigger storms, more 'extreme weather events'. From what I've read, global warming will make some parts of the world more pleasant, but it will make just as many places much less pleasant:

• USA Midewest will become a dust bowl
• Northern Europe will actually get cooler (due to a cold artic current not running as deep in the warmer water)
• Canadian prairies get wetter (a welcome change)
• More frequent large storms
• If enough ice melts, the oceans will rise.

The weather is too complicated to predict with any great accuracy, so all this should be taken with a grain of salt.