Worse than expected or forget about it?

Originally posted by Darth Sponge
and then theres the whole bee thing. I mean... the bees. We need the bees.

That also happened 100 years ago. You think that it may be a pattern or something.

Originally posted by Darth Sponge
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070501/sc_nm/globalwarming_ice_dc

Forget about stopping it, I think! The trick now will be to calculate the best real estate investment for a hotter future. Any suggestions?

Plus, psychological preparation is a must. What other than novels like JG Ballards "The Drowned World" would you recommend?

Originally posted by Darth Sponge
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070501/sc_nm/globalwarming_ice_dc

You better start working on that list of "100 Things" you've always wanted to do.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
You better start working on that list of "100 Things" you've always wanted to do.

I wouldn't buy that florida keys estate you have been dreaming of if I were you. Unless you plan to open an underwater museum.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Forget about stopping it, I think! The trick now will be to calculate the best real estate investment for a hotter future. Any suggestions?

Plus, psychological preparation is a must. What other than novels like JG Ballards "The Drowned World" would you recommend?

I would suggest a nice little country estate in Babylonia. Near Bavels collapsing tower or perhaps in Babel. It used to have a nice sea port, though the sea is now 50 km retreated and is 40 feet lower than the remnants of the docks built for sea going ships discovered there.

Or maybe a nice little sea-side estate in st. George Utah? It is already pretty nice there. Imagine how much better with a nice coast line. I can hardly wait. Except you know it will be overrun by mindless lefties from Washington state. Nevermind. I'll just tough it out here.

(edit) I still wonder why the sea was so much higher back then...(mytologicallly 7000 years ago?) And africa seems to have oceanic shorelines that are now over two hundred feet in elevation and miles inland that seem to be from the time of the great die-out, about 80 thousand years ago. Why were the oceans so much higher then? Certainly not from human polution or any other human made causes. Science has determined that there may have been as few as 2000 humans on the entire planet at that time. They use the mitochondrial dna to determine that we all seem to have one or two ancient mothers who survived the great die-out.

Here is a snip from the wiki...

Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the mouth (at the time) of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. It is considered to be one of the earliest known civilizations in world history. Because of marine regression, the remains are now well inland in present-day Iraq, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, and named Tell el-Mukayyar [1], near the city of Nasiriyah south of Baghdad.