As the article states over and over again, scientists do not have enough data to make any worthy predictions.
The scenario presented in the article isn't exactly new, it has been around for at least a decade. The desalination data is new though...
Now another scenario, that builds on top of the one from the article goes like this:
We have this local ice age in Europe and north east america because the gulf stream stopped. Then Scandinavia and north eastern America will freeze. Winters will be longer and thus surface albeido rises (google it up). The white snow and ice reflect more sunlight (= heat...energy) back into space cooling earth yet a bit more. Due to the stopped heat exchange tropical regions get hotter: more clouds, more albeido.
This global cooling of just a few degrees would be enough to freeze down another huge area: Himalaya. This again raises surface albeido and you have a global ice age. Game over, enter coin.
The article is rather conservative in its telling of past climate changes (speaking geological time scales). It is probably conservative because it does not want to sound too crazy. But from all we know, ocean level changed by tens of meters in disturbingly short periods of time. Much of Sahara once was green and so on.... I am really looking kind of foreward to the times, when the ragged refrugees from frozen Europe are laughed off at the borders of green and prosperous Tunesia, Marocco and the like. Lol.
No, seriously: We don't know a shit about what's going to happen. But one the is shure - before the bloody environmentalists don't have a water tight case on any kind of climate change, we won't listen. And certainly we won't fund them.
Hi,
dunno about about ximian on slackware (I tested ximian but I'm happier with debian gnome).
But http://www.gnome.org posted something in their news (http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/gnome-news/10071 65758/) that might interest you.
There is some effort (http://linuxsalute.com/) to do for slackware what ximian did for other dists.
Regards
Thorsten
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The scenario presented in the article isn't exactly new, it has been around for at least a decade. The desalination data is new though ...
Now another scenario, that builds on top of the one from the article goes like this:
We have this local ice age in Europe and north east america because the gulf stream stopped. Then Scandinavia and north eastern America will freeze. Winters will be longer and thus surface albeido rises (google it up). The white snow and ice reflect more sunlight (= heat...energy) back into space cooling earth yet a bit more. Due to the stopped heat exchange tropical regions get hotter: more clouds, more albeido.
This global cooling of just a few degrees would be enough to freeze down another huge area: Himalaya. This again raises surface albeido and you have a global ice age. Game over, enter coin.
The article is rather conservative in its telling of past climate changes (speaking geological time scales). It is probably conservative because it does not want to sound too crazy. But from all we know, ocean level changed by tens of meters in disturbingly short periods of time. Much of Sahara once was green and so on .... I am really looking kind of foreward to the times, when the ragged refrugees from frozen Europe are laughed off at the borders of green and prosperous Tunesia, Marocco and the like. Lol.
No, seriously: We don't know a shit about what's going to happen. But one the is shure - before the bloody environmentalists don't have a water tight case on any kind of climate change, we won't listen. And certainly we won't fund them.
Thorsten
Hi, dunno about about ximian on slackware (I tested ximian but I'm happier with debian gnome). But http://www.gnome.org posted something in their news (http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/gnome-news/10071 65758/) that might interest you.
There is some effort (http://linuxsalute.com/) to do for slackware what ximian did for other dists.
Regards
Thorsten