From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:47:35 -0400, Adam  wrote:

> Phil Payne wrote:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4890342.stm
>>  "The number of tornadoes in the US has risen dramatically in the first
>> part
>> of 2006, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction
>> Centre.
>>  At the end of March, an estimated 286 tornadoes had hit the US,
>> against an
>> average of 70 for the same three-month period over the past three
>> years."
>>
>
> I have to say that my suspicion is that the problems are not going to be
> a shift in one direction per se but a simple increase in chaos.
>
> The last 10K years (which is when our (human) "civilization" has
> emerged) has been very unusually stable which may in itself be the
> reason why we went from sheltering in caves to going to the moon.
>
> My suspicion is that rather "everything gets warmer thus..." we are
> going to see the equivalent of a brownian motion experiment on a global
> scale ie. "everything gets more chaotic thus...everything gets much
> harder to predict". Next year you could have tornadoes in spain or
> hurricanes in Argentina.
>
> The one I'm watching wrt future humanity is whether Oz starts picking up
> more rainfall (esp how deep into the interior) coz if so then hopefully
> lots of low lying places can shift their people there.
>
> Adam

Damned straight about Australia.  They could have a brilliant future with a
resultant cultural, political and economic shift in the Anglosphere of the
future.

Antarctica without ice is going to pose interesting international questions.

Finally there is the practical future Northwest Passage that so concerns Canada now.

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Gary Wiltshire

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