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to: Geo.
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2007-01-09 07:05:08
subject: Re: ice island

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:45a2df45$3{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I would've nominated this one: "China and India both have massive
>> populations. If it gets warmer they can move north" - with just that
>> couple of seconds worth of words, we've just moved something like one
>> third of the whole population of the planet, just like that. It's simple,
>> just do it ;-)
>
> It's not simple, but it has happened in the past and will happen again in
> the future, weather makes people inhabit one area over another. Look at
> the US, how do you think LA became so populated, you think the people
> there just reproduce faster or something? Populations move, 20 years is
> plenty of time to see something like that in action, 50 years (still a
> short time span when talking about climate change) is more than enough
> time.

50 years more than enough to move something like 2300 million (or more)
people, from countries so poor they can barely afford to exist where they
are now, eh? Now that's funny...


Antti Kurenniemi

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