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  4. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  5. Subject: Re: Ocean Warming and Rising
  6. In-Reply-To: foy@aero.org's message of Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:37:27 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <JMC.92Jul25120528@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. References: <1992Jul25.153727.4138@aero.org>
  12. Date: 25 Jul 92 12:05:28
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  15. I'll bite.  Why is a one millimeter per year raise in sea level
  16. important?  That's a meter in a thousand years.
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  18. I remember some years ago there was a claim that the level in the
  19. deep ocean below which the temperature is 4 degrees C has been rising
  20. irreversibly for perhaps a few million years and that it would eventually
  21. have some catastrophic effect - I forget what.
  22.  
  23. --
  24. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  26. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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