Several people have asked me that. Who is J. Bellamy? And what does he do?
John
At 01:28 AM 12/2/00 -0000, Michael Meuser wrote:
>Interesting post. Looks like its well worth scanning the list. Thnx
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>By the way, you're not John Bellamy Foster are you?
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>mike.
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>> Hi
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>> I am scan the posts on the 'trash talk' forum on 'global warming' and have
>> found some interesting things. There are not that many interesting items
>> but there are a few. Here is one such item....
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/03/business/03SHIP.html
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>> quote:
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>> ------ While politicians debate the validity of global warming, some
>> shippers are voting with their boats, quietly shifting marine routes to
>> Churchill, Canada's northernmost industrial harbor. After decades of
>> ignoring the only major port on the Hudson Bay because of ice hazards,
>> shippers are finding that the retreating ice cover is putting Churchill on
>> the map.
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------
>>
>> One of the most interesting findings that was published this last year was
>> that on average over the last 100 years the ice on lakes in the European
>> countries has been vanishing much earlier as time progresses towards the
>> present.
>>
>> How did scientists observe this phenomenon?
>>
>> Well it was quite easy. There is a tradition held by clerics where there
>> are churches near lakes in many European countries of recording when the
>> ice melts on the lake. This has some significance for rural people as one
>> might imagine. I will post the article on this finding which is truely
>> remarkable.
>>
>> There are many lakes in BC that have not frozen over for quite some time.
>> I remember Shuswap Lake freezing over almost every winter because I used
>> to fly over the lake with my father - I was too small to fly by myself -
>> in the sixties and early seventies. But now it is not usual to find the
>> lake frozen over. In fact there are flowers growing in southern BC, in the
>> interior even in January near Lillooet, the hottest place in Canada.
>>
>> Anyway it is raining out right now, and I am at about 52 degrees north and
>> change. The elevation is 740 meters, and it is raining. This may be the
>> warmest winter on record here since I can remember. Normally there is
>> nearly 1 meter of snow in December out my back yard and I moved here in
>> 1992. So it is hotting up really good in the winter...what winter?
>>
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