Re: OT:Thanksgiving
- From: "HeyBub" <heybub@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:53:34 -0600
tlmfru wrote:
Can we spell "glaciers melting all over the world, the Arctic ice cap
melting so quickly that it may be gone in 20 years, the Antartic ice
fields floating away to sea"? Can we come up with a reason other
than global warming??
Heh! Some glaciers are melting/shrinking. Others are expanding.
Some hold the world would be better off if the planet DID warm up a few
degrees. Canada could get three crops of grain per year instead of two, most
of the world's growing seasons would increase, thereby providing more food.
There would be an increase in deaths associated with warmer temperatures*,
but these would be offset by a decline in deaths attributed to cold weather.
Currently, there are about five times more cold-related deaths than
heat-related ones.
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* Principally due to malaria. But, of course, malaria deaths are another
example of an upstream liberal program gone awry. Using DDT, malaria was
eliminated in the US by 1951. Malaria was almost copntrolled in Africa by
the early '70s. Then the environmentalists succeeded in banning all uses of
DDT. Today, there are about 1,000,000 deaths per year (mostly children) to
the disease - except in (I think) Ivory Coast where there are virtually
none. Ivory Coast never did sign on to the ban-DDT scheme.
Recently, several African countries - South Africa in the lead - have
re-introduced DDT and their malaria rates have plummeted.
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