From: "Rich Gauszka" 

By that time you flooded out East coasters may be considered  illegal
aliens in the Midwest 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> I'm not worried Rich, the toughest part will be breaching Geo.'s perimeter
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>> Wonder if Mark's house is on stilts?
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060925/ap_on_sc/global_warming_5
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>> The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.36 degree Fahrenheit per decade
>> for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen
>> of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
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>> That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current
>> interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago.
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>> The researchers noted that a report in the journal Nature found that
>> 1,700 plant, animal and insect species moved poleward at an average rate
>> of about 4 miles per decade in the last half of the 20th century.
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>> The warming has been stronger in the far north, where melting ice and
>> snow expose darker land and rocks beneath allowing more warmth from the
>> sun to be absorbed, and more over land than water.
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>> Water changes temperature more slowly than land because of its great
>> capacity to hold heat, but the researchers noted that the warming has
>> been marked in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Those oceans have a
>> major effect on climate and warming that could lead to more El Nino
>> episodes affecting the weather.
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>> "This evidence implies that we are getting close to dangerous levels of
>> human-made pollution," Hansen said in a statement.
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>> Few scientists doubt that the planet has warmed, though some question the
>> causes of the change.
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>> Hansen, who first warned of the danger of climate change decades ago,
>> said that human-made greenhouse gases have become the dominant climate
>> change factor.
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>> The study said the recent warming has brought global temperature to a
>> level within about one degree Celsius - 1.8 degree Fahrenheit - of the
>> maximum temperature of the past million years.
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>> "If further global warming reaches 2 or 3 degrees Celsius, we
will likely
>> see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know. The
>> last time it was that warm was in the middle Pliocene, about 3 million
>> years ago, when sea level was estimated to have been about 25 meters (80
>> feet) higher than today," Hansen said.
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