Keith E. wrote:

Think about this- if you pour water in one side of a fish tank,
the water level rises on the opposite side as well... pretty
amazing ain't it? So the deal is that the arctic ice is not
flat on the ground, like your driveway in the winter, but in
giant ice mountains majestically reaching heavenward... when
they melt, they become water, but water doesn't stack up so
good like ice does. As they melt, it's like pouring water into
the fish tank, and the level of the sea goes up. There's areas
of the earth, like Holland, Belgium, and Florida, which are just
barely above sea level, or even below in areas, which become
huge marshlands... remember the boy with his thumb in the *****?
You might like to try this simple experiment- put a slice of
dry toast in one side of a tub, and dump a five pound bag of
ice cubes on the other side, calling the toast Florida and the
ice the "arctic ice". Leave this outside in the hot sun for a
day and watch what happens to Florida.

so, you're finally gotten your head bent around global warming, huh?
i think you need to send this email to GW Bush too.
obviously no-one has bothered to explain it like this to him before.

Until we start reaching temps higher than those when dinosaurs roamed
the planet, we're okay.

I just bet that American Science teachers are telling their students
that too, right before the lesson on Intelligent Design.

*rolls eyes*

Keith E. wrote:

Think about this- if you pour water in one side of a fish tank,
the water level rises on the opposite side as well... pretty
amazing ain't it? So the deal is that the arctic ice is not
flat on the ground, like your driveway in the winter, but in
giant ice mountains majestically reaching heavenward... when
they melt, they become water, but water doesn't stack up so
good like ice does. As they melt, it's like pouring water into
the fish tank, and the level of the sea goes up. There's areas
of the earth, like Holland, Belgium, and Florida, which are just
barely above sea level, or even below in areas, which become
huge marshlands... remember the boy with his thumb in the *****?
You might like to try this simple experiment- put a slice of
dry toast in one side of a tub, and dump a five pound bag of
ice cubes on the other side, calling the toast Florida and the
ice the "arctic ice". Leave this outside in the hot sun for a
day and watch what happens to Florida.

so, you're finally gotten your head bent around global warming, huh?
i think you need to send this email to GW Bush too.
obviously no-one has bothered to explain it like this to him before.

Until we start reaching temps higher than those when dinosaurs roamed
the planet, we're okay.

I just bet that American Science teachers are telling their students
that too, right before the lesson on Intelligent Design.

*rolls eyes*