Re: BBC & Global Warming

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David 
Off <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> lcopps wrote:
> > In 2000, I stayed at an inn in Zermatt where a painting over 100 
> > years  old hung showed the town at the time, the glaciers nearly came 
> > all the  way down to the outskirts of the town in the summer.
>
> In the early middle ages many of the alpine cols that now have year 
> round snow cover were dry, so at that time the European climate must 
> have been warmer.
Which makes the point that the temperatures we're experiencing now 
aren't particularly extreme (did you check the snow cover on those cols 
last summer though?)
The worry about global warming is that short of a collapse of the global 
economy there's no way to stop it getting worse and worse, faster and 
faster.
And if there was a collapse of the global economy, most people in the UK 
would starve, since even with a warmer climate we can't grow enough food 
to feed ourselves.

I'm all worried now, I'll have to go skiing to take my mind off it.
--
Sue  ]:(:)