The Oil Drum

Normally after a conference this is where I would give you my opinions in a little summary, and I would still like to do that, but the way things have worked out, I would like to preface that discussion with a little story. I had thought to post what immediately follows as a post on Friday, during the first day of the conference, but there were other pieces, and I was not sure how much on-topic this was. So I sent it around to our contributors for comment. And it developed into a little story on its own. So, since what then happened has some relevance to the conclusions I drew from the meeting, I thought I would combine both tasks. So let me begin with the original post as I wrote it.
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I remember walking along the coast of Sardinia, and visiting the ruins of the Roman port at Nora, that stretch out, under the water and into the Mediterranean, and thinking that there must have been a land subsidence between then and now to carry the land down and underwater. Somehow, until reading my book on the plane traveling here, I could not get my mind around the fact that the sea levels had risen so much since the port was built that it now lies underwater. And the cause of the sea level rising around the world, as it must have, has been that some of the ice that lies around the poles has melted, as the overall climate and temperature of the Earth has changed.

The book I was reading is called “Unstoppable Global Warming – Every 1,500 years,” by Singer and Avery, and it is written in rebuttal of some of the issues that are being brought up over Global Warming. And, since I am not that au fait with the other sides of the argument (when did you last see a detailed article that looks at the issue from other than ex-Vice President Gore’s perspective), and in keeping with the philosophy that leads me to read CERA articles, I thought it would be informative to see what the other side of the argument is all about.(Added comment – I was sent a note from Amazon, because of all the books that I buy on that site about peak oil, that this book might be of interest, and I thought why not?)