Just too many people in America.

[lets-retire]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5076322.stm

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V9/N45/C2.jsp

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050516/full/050516-10.html

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020820southseaice.html

I wouldn't be too worried about the sea level. These are just a few articles I can quote stating many glaciers are actually growing thicker. Yes some are older, but there are many out there with similar themes and a lot more, like the New York Times and others, that require you to register with the website.

 

[RP]

OK, Al. You go first.

Haha that was my thought too. How many remember my old governor in Colorado, Dick Lamm. He made himself famous buy proposing his own solution to the problem of an aging population and elder health care costs ... "people have a duty to die".

So far, Dick, I'm disobeying you ;-) But I'll probably knuckle under and submit some day .....

 

[lazygood4nothinbum]

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050516/full/050516-10.html

I wouldn't be too worried about the sea level. These are just a few articles I can quote stating many glaciers are actually growing thicker.

interesting take but my layman's mind is not convinced that thickness is the issue, that the poles might fare better spread thin. from what i've read and what seems to make sense to my limited experience in dealing even with just tropical sunlight here, without the light colored ice coverage at the poles to reflect the sun's rays, global warming will increase. this also makes sense in terms of the above-mentioned thickening theory of the poles, that as the temperature increases, so does precipitation, at the poles, in the form of snow. the earth doesn't need a mountain of snow there, it needs plains of ice.

http://tinyurl.com/yhhuy2

by Guillaume Lavallee
41 minutes ago

MONTREAL (AFP) - An enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year, researchers said, warning it could be another symptom of global warming.

The 66-square-kilometer (25.5-square-mile) ice island tore away from Ellesmere, a huge strip of land in the Canadian Arctic close to Greenland.

The break occurred in August 2005 and was so violent that it caused tremors that were detected by Canadian seismographs 250 kilometers (155 miles) away, but at the time no one was able to pinpoint what had happened.

 

[Martha]

I read that the ice that broke off was 3000 years old.

 

[lets-retire]

lazy--I agree that the ice shelf needs to be larger and flater to slow global warming, however I was referencing the thought that the seas are raising. If the ice shelves are getting thicker the water has to be coming form somewhere and that leaves the sea, resulting in slower increases of the sea levels or even a lowering of the sea levels.

 

[lazygood4nothinbum]

lets, i'm so far out of my league here. i know even less about his than i do about finance. sorry, but i have nothing better than intuition. i do not mean or tend to be an alarmist, but i wonder, based on what absolutely little i read--and only what you've supplied on thickening--if this might just be a temporary phenomenon before even that mountain of snow thaws and there is no place for the snow to land but in a dark, warming & rising sea.

also another supposed problem with the warming sea is that you don't need to add more water to make the levels rise. you just need to increase its rate of vibration. i relearn that almost every time i put too much water in the pot to cook pasta.

 

[mmg2681]

Maybe those survivalist types in Idaho and montana got it right years ago when they went OFF the grid.

I agree.
I have actually been looking into the cob housing.
http://www.chicobco.com/cob-house-in-Eco-Village.gif
Unfortunately, there arent many here in the US (that I can tell, so far).
Not sure how many counties would approve these structures.
Housing made from mud.
Farm and eat from the feilds.
Live off of the energy from wind-mill.

Sounds like a great, relaxing retirement to me!
The only problem(s): my fiance is NOT into it at all and I have a good 20 years until ER...if I'm lucky!