Title: WILL GLOBAL WARMING CAUSE ANOTHER NOAH’S FLOOD?
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WILL GLOBAL WARMING CAUSE ANOTHER NOAH’S FLOOD?
By Arthur Zulu
Man is a very clever animal. For example, he is the only one whoknows that the world will end someday, and worries about it. Andhe is the only creature that can create anything out of auseless thing like ice.
Now, let’s imagine ourselves in a man-made ice theater-- floor,roof, and all. We are sitting on chairs made of ice; drinkingbeer from glasses (made of ice of course), and we are about towatch a play.
What is the play about? The actor, (of course flesh and blood)is going to enter into a mighty cooking pot made of ice. Then hewill be covered; and the giant ice cooking pot, suspended byequally giant tripods (made of ice too), is to be heated by agigantic fire.
As we the spectators watch to see what happens to the actor, weobserve that first, the iced floor begins to crack as a resultof the fire. Then the pot begins to melt, and before we know it,the ice-made glasses on our hands, also begin to melt as aresult of the heat.
Suddenly, the roof of the heated ice theater begins to give wayand collapse on our heads, and before long, we find ourselvesswimming in an ocean of water. So, we the spectators becomeactors; and birds and all sorts of flying things, become thespectators!
But wait. This is not a play. It is real, and very soon whereonce used to be our houses, might well become an ocean, and weall will be swimming for our lives! And if you live in a coastalcity, say New York, London, or Cape Town; you had better startmaking your ark for another Noah’s flood. But how, you may ask,will this come about?
Over the decades, man has turned up the global thermostatthrough the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.This has caused climatic upheavals (heavy rain, drought,superkiller winds), and health hazard (skin cancer).
It has even been speculated that the warming trend could bringabout the opposite -- global freeze. It happened before inEurope at the end of the Ice Age when a natural warminginitiated a phenomenon that shut up the Gulf Stream. Suppose ithappens again, and throws us into a deep freeze for say, 2000years (the previous one in Europe lasted 1,300 years).
What if the former wins out and the polar ice begins a Greatmeltdown. It has been melting for decades, and several bodies ofwater have been forming at the Arctic and the Antarctica. And sowhat?
If you live in Alaska, you will now understand why memorialcrosses are collapsing on the tombs in your local cemeterieswhile the tombs themselves are yawning and displaying theirbowels. And you will know why your house is sinking or slantingat a terrible angle, and why your country roads are cracking up.
Even the animals are perplexed as they roam into unexpectedlakes (where once used to be ice), and grasslands (where forestsonce stood). So the marooned polar bear gazing helplessly at theequally marooned countryman knows that the ground on which theyare standing is playing games.
Just in case you are skeptical of the global warming trend, youcould do one of two things: Find out why ivory gulls are nowsoaring in the Arctic, the land of polar bears. Or look up downunder and say what caused the gaping holes in Australia.
Yes, there are difficulties in predicting the Greenhouse effect.This is as a result of the roles of some elements --melting iceand snow, clouds, the oceans, volcanoes and solar cycles -- inthe heating and cooling process of the earth.
But that does not mean that we should take the warming trend asnatural, or for granted, because a major climatic change maysoon come. Why wouldn’t it come when we continue to burngasoline and coal without check. Dump the Rio Summit! Forget theKyoto Protocol! Who cares if a global flood is coming. LetHolland sink. And let Bangladesh go under water. We will allswim!
But not to worry; it may not happen now. It may be the lot ofyour great great grandchildren, perhaps when the earth had hit15 or 20 billion. And the little children may find it funnyafter all.
Imagine 15 or 20 billion dancing boats, with their occupantswaving multi - colored farewell flags on a global ocean. Like acarnival. What a way to exit the planet -- the boats becomefloating coffins; and the ocean their watery graves!
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