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From: Robin I Morgan <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] EU Jurassic Park on Essex wetlands - at Dengie Peninsular
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:31:45 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <1E1D6FF8.7B88E682.006A19F4@aol.com>


But a century ago they were worried about global
cooling with the ice caps increasing and sea levels
decreasing leaving ports high and dry!

I was amused by this extract from a speech
ex-President Teddy Roosevelt gave to the University of
Berlin in 1910:

"The enormous and constantly increasing output of coal
and iron necessarily means the approach of the day
when our children's children, or their children's
children, shall dwell in an ironless age--and, later
on, in an age without coal--and will have to try to
invent or develop new sources for the production of
heat and use of energy."

For coal now read oil.

Robin
Woking (Surrey not Alberta)

--- wrote:

> In an email dated Tue, 8 11 2005 3:44:34 pm GMT,
> Ruth Aylett <> writes:
>
> >
> >Malaria is a part of our great Essex heritage we
> might be about to
> >rediscover given global warming, irrespective of
> Jurassic or any other
> >parks. Used to be very prevalent on the Dengie
> peninsula.
> >
>
> There were stories of old Essex men from places such
> as the Dengie area and Canvey who were married
> anything up to a dozen or more times. They would go
> up to the uplands to find a wife and bring her back
> to the marshes where she would succumb to malaria
> (and other illnesses) and die, often within a few
> weeks, as the upland folk had no resistance to the
> marsh diseases.
>
> So after the wife died, the man was off to the
> uplands again to find another wife, and another, and
> ....
>
> As for an increase due to global warming, that's a
> debatable point. There has only ever been one
> statistical study into global warming and that
> scientist came up with figures that didn't support
> his hypothesis; he didn't have time to get more
> facts before his presentation so he did what any
> self-respecting person would do - he made them up!
> Unfortunately the figures that everyone quotes as
> facts to support global warming are usually these
> dodgy ones. It's a matter of if you quote a lie
> enough times eventually it gets accepted as truth, I
> suppose.
>
> DaveD
>
>




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