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Show 2$ DESERT NEWS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1975 Iricreasing energy use will eventually melt polatice, scientist says WASHINGTON (UPD selects believe1! man's ever A marine Im read- consumption of energy is threatening to turn the world into a hothouse hat tiiit melt polar ice sheets ana the oceans into tee hearts of major nd some of the globes best cities ing farmland tci u.utcu utitiDU l- present 4 - t,u iumu 80 to attitude toward hie stands no more, jSO years In the future says Dr Howard A Wilcox, director of the U S Navy's Ocean Farm Project in California it, 'is cur duty, I k rearrange our energy eswumatoa habits so that we do not hurtle bbndy along until we trip the therms! pollution ingger and start a sequence el 3vent, a Uue il ell may yU Wui, Hot our not be able to stem Wilcox presents his concern in a new book, Hothouse Earth lPra?ger, $7,&) atmosphere St 8 pouring heat into relatively harmless raw a iU les than ore the rate at winch the sun p heating tns eana Tss problem is that mans use oi energy is growing, even in these days of esi shortages and price hikes, Everytmng we do takes energy and the overwhelming bulk of that energy comes from burning fossil fuels, such as oil and coal, or uranium in nuclear power plaids The heat released from conveiting those fuels to energy evemu aUj makes its way into the atmosphere if energy consumption continue to accelerate at the rate it has in recent years, Wilcox predicts in 0 to 0 years man will be putting out heat equal to one thousandth thi heat continued from i.Le sun By 80 to NO year;, be says mans heat contribution to the atom- - At present, Wilcox writes, r&m phere will be s hundredth of the gU4i, "By tec ysors 2385 to 215& t20 to 183 Wilcox caleuSgtea yean from todgy hat man will be addinsr to percent of the sun's heat contribution to the aunorphere. Wilcox contends that whu mans heat contribution cbmha above I percent w tee sun s rw apprtui hx i5 , Arctic Ocean ice. Then the ice sheet on (Jpeeniand wcwld melt, raising sea levels fey 30 feet. Finally, the great ice mass covering Antarctica would melt, levels an i 1 10 to 183 feet. The waters would rise slowly at first, bpt in s few decades waves would start jiCBmg fit eecuud, uui u aud fourth thermal pollution floor windows oi buildings in many percent, th threshold will fcove been crossed coastal cuies Wheat says farmlands along fivers Would he engulfed and Temperatures around the globe wSU have increased a degree or two This is billion of people woyid become refugees in search of dry land, triggering enough, he says, to start the polar ice melting First to go would bo the thin ' wssrs and nets M people fight for dwtnaung hving tpocc to deoy 'the jt is impossible and the the physical, mathematical, of tbs srfa- logical gs Wilcox says 1 qp only away to avoid sues chinas! is to stop Wng pollution Wilcox says, fossil fuels and nuclear power and to turn to the sun itself Solar energy is the O? nonthermaiiy poJuWng only form can be harnessed energy dhu he said it from winds, from m many ways heatrii ocean waters, from direct radiation and from ocean farms growwbicn can be convened ing sea p'aots luel and food into 2 heads better than one WASHINGTON' (UPD American and Russian scientists, working together without restriction," have made progress in 'the war against canceh and other sicknesses, a spokesman for the National Cancer Institute said Monday , There is no question that there are more people iii both countries being treated better because "jSL this collaboration, said Dr Frank J Rauscner at a meeting of the ITJS-U.- S S R Joint Comrmtree for Health Cooperation. Scientists from the two countries scheduled a report today on joint efforts against, heart disease which xwuld lead to de velopmcnt of an artifit lal heart la fcumans. They have also allied to probe the problems of artfcntis. influenza and FOODS convenient Er locations A SOUTH & 23rd F.AsT 33rd SOUTH & 23rd EAST 3735 SOI HI! Hh EAST 2029 EAST 70th SOiTI! 2 9 1 hI Redeem Your Sugar House Turlf , s Ddvt s REDEEM YOUR SUGAR HOUSE run r 17 M it, - IH Coupons At Any Safeway Store COUPONS AT ANY DAN'S FOODS MARKET in sugar house ' 121 5 SIMPSON AVI. STURJCEYS WiiSilH s Ol "inVU11N f nets 5ft ITS lONL if .il fw (A All uskbss I Kt gHB'S s' 31. Tcudr-Timo- d T ff 11 Two Great Brands Norbnsi v 1 tens , T y. s W" 7 ylsfi fea .1 SPECIAL iff c,ifiic iffv GGiV. it,ui Gal! on of I i fcurti-s- i 1 T MANOR Ui HOUSE 10PUB8I & i Be Sore You Ge? United States Tuiksy Vilh the Department of Agriculture Gracfe A ohleid. You Ve Sura of the Best at A Hnnhy Sefcwc. m laVT |