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Saturday, August 21, 2004
Globaloney Warming (This originally appeared on Steyn Online as a letter to the editor.) CANADA IS DOOMED I absolutely love your work - very sharp. I've been pondering a topic that would be perfect for a Steynian discourse, particularly since you primarily occupy northern climes. Here's the problem. The geological evidence (derived primarily from ocean sediments and polar ice core records) shows very clearly that there have been approximately 20 evenly-timed glacial episodes in the past 2 million years or so, each of approximately 100,000 years' duration. During these glacial periods Canada is covered in roughly a mile-thick layer of ice. During the intervening 'interglacials' , as we now find ourselves, Canada and northern Europe are actually habitable, to a degree (I live in California, so I'd consider it a very limited degree) for relatively short periods rarely exceeding 10,000 years. Our current interglacial, termed the Holocene era, started, well, just about 10,000 years ago, and we've been in a longterm cooling trend since the 'altithermal' period about 6,000 years ago. As such, Canada should be considered on deathwatch. This recurring pattern is striking in its regularity, and is attributed to astronomical factors, primarily regular changes in the shape of earth's orbit which control how much summer sunlight is available to melt the ice annually. The details of this mechanism are a matter of study and debate, but the clockwork of glaciation and deglaciation is truly one of the marvels of scientific discovery, and of nature itself. When the next glaciation occurs, which it almost certainly will (absent a huge surprise or some sort of artificial climate modification), Canada will return again to a deeply frozen, nearly lifeless wasteland. It will be completely deforested (that includes maple trees). Its topsoil will be scraped clean, carried south by the flowing ice and redeposited in the American midwest for future bubba farmers to plow and fertilize. Every Canadian ever lain to rest in his homeland will be rudely disinterred by mother nature and reburied somewhere in Ohio or Missouri or maybe carried all the way down to the Mississippi delta, perhaps to be lain in a red Bush state for eons to come. Unless we miraculously find some way to achieve a sort of 'global warming' effect, Canada is done, and it won't be long. Jim Johnstone Berkeley, California |