I don't know the answer to your questions, Hawk. I don't know enough about the issue right now, and won't have the time until the summer to investigate it more thoroughly.
Sam.. that's the way we all learn, based upon the facts (and interpretation of those facts).
But I think we'd better be REAL CAREFUL before we start making the kind of assumptions/assertions that people like Al Gore are making in trying to create a religion out of global warming being caused by mankind.
There are BILLIONS of people who need to be brought (sometimes kicking and screaming) into the modern economic world. And as that BBC video pointed out, having the UN try and force relatively inefficient Solar and Wind energy that is not only costly (currently) and highly inferior to fossil fuels is the path to incredible blowback. The undeveloped world could, IMO rightly, assert that this is a new form of Malthusian economics bent upon denying them an equal share in the global economy/prosperity.
Btw, water vapor is a FAR GREATER "greenhouse gas" than CO2. Methane is ALSO a far greater GH gas than CO2 (some assert up to 23x greater).
But when's the last time you saw Al Gore telling everyone to take Beano, or that we should drain all the peat bogs and salt marshes?
But I submit that if we're going to blame CO2, then the strategy we take should be "natural", and complimetary to the environment. Simply put, we should create the proper "cocktail" of mineral nutrients that encourage the growth of specific Diatoms (phytoplankton) that will sink to the bottom of the sea when they die. Those that don't sink, will be eaten by Krill, which will then be eaten by other fish, and so on, to replenish the oceanic food chain.
Because we're CLEARLY depleting the oceans by over-fishing (tragedy of the commons), and we have an obligation to restore that balance.
And I'm a man who really likes his Sushi..
Hawk |
