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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (8482)12/6/2006 8:32:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 36917
 
Tim, if there's a return of the ice age despite our best efforts to avoid it, the crops will more likely be frozen in situ for the next defrost [if it comes and we don't plunge into permanent ice-ball status] at which time archeologists will examine the crops like the 4000 year old frozen man's intestines from the Swiss Alps.

After the vast effort over a century to produce and burn vast amounts of coal and hydrocarbons in an effort to raise CO2 levels, which cost a fortune, it would be very disappointing if we go straight into the expected ice age anyway.

Despite a 30% increase in CO2 levels, the planet is no warmer. Maybe 0.7degrees if we are lucky.

It's taking more and more production to raise CO2 levels because it's leaking out faster and faster as we fill the atmosphere. Plants love eating CO2 and vast limestone deposits and shell-bearing beasties are neutralizing carbonic acid as it forms. Plus it just soaks into the ocean which is a very big sink.

I'm not optimistic that we'll succeed in preventing the ice age return, so I'm eyeing vast tracts of land in Australia and the Sahara with a view to selling residential sites as the ice covers the high latitudes, to a billion people wanting to move to warmer places.

Mqurice
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