[AGL] An Inconvenient Truth the movie

[Frances Morey]

As a child I used to find petrified sea shells on the family ranch in Medina county. When I questioned this I learned that the coastline eons ago had run through Central Texas. There could possibly be reasons for the melt down other than the human penchant for using up petroleum products for energy. In glacial pre-history there was a melt down that created a mega flood which theoretically formed some of the grandest canyons in the Western US. I read an article once about how arrogant we humans are to think that we can effect the vastness of the environment. The suggestion was that there are things bigger than our human minds can fathom. Certainly previous rises and falls of the ocean levels didn't have to do with industrial pollution. Witness that things like this happened even before there was an industrial revolution. I'm not saying that humans shouldn't shoulder some blame for what scientists are discovering about our effect on the environment, just that there could also
 possibly be other cyclical causes for the changes. I'[m certainly not defending the clueless Bush administration, just thinking that things are not always what they seem.
  Stanley Walker once told me that only 10% of the land mass in the US was developed. I don't believe it is impossible to relocate the masses in the coastal area to higher ground. Sure it will be expensive, but at least the construction of the new cities would create a whole lotta new jobs of the type that can't be outsourced. Since the manufacturing sector was moved to China, something has to happen to revitalize this country. Maybe it will be adapting to a global warming that has passed the point of no return. Adaptability, after all, is what distinguishes us as human beings.
  Frances
  

Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
      Connie.  Let us pray that the "younger generation" will not be as peevishly dumb as the past ones.  The Greenland ice scenario is, as I understand it, even worse than a simple rise in ocean levels.  Good bye most of the world's large coastal cities!  Population displacement will by in the hundreds of millions.  Where do they go?  Once read an article about the effects of a massive "cold water dump" coming from the Arctic Ocean down the gap between G'land and Nova Scotia.  The result - disruption of the Gulf Stream.  Imagine what that will do weather patterns in East Coast and all of the NW side of Europe.  
   
  Meanwhile, the monkey sits and frets about gay marriage.
   
  wgJ
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Connie Clark 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:03 PM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] Joe Ben Clark recommends An Inconvenient Truth the movie
  

  Ok, Wayne.  I've had sleepless nights since hearing Gore's lecture and attending the movie, but here is an explanation of my comment.  He says scientists speculate that Greenland ice mass could slide into the ocean anytime in the next (outside 10 years), raising sea levels 20' or more, wiping out south Florida for one. Nobody knows for sure.
   
  So, I'm thinking we are basically doomed and the planet is on 'short time'.  But of course, Gore is saying that there is hope, and that we all need to pull our own weight, so to speak, by turning out lights, and using energy efficient this and that, and in particular better mileage on cars, and possibly get us back - he's figurin - down to the 70s level of the global warming trend. Anyway, the more people get the message (thru the movei), the more likely there will be a few more folks who will cut down on their fossil fuel consumption - thus reducing greenhouse gases.  Nothing you didn't already know, except that I believe our generation may not see very bad results of climate change (apocalypse?) - whereas the younguns most likely will.
   
  Connie
  

Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
          What do you mean "young people see this differently"?  How differently?  Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
   
  An explanation would reduce the panic factor among some of us (read: Wayne)
   
  Thanks. Wayne
   
    
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