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To: KLP who wrote (201732)4/7/2007 3:14:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 793630
 
K, don't be deceived by big numbers: <help put this number in perspective, it represents about 10,000 times the amount of energy generated and consumed by humans each year. >

It isn't the amount of energy the people produce which is the issue. That energy is trivial.

The point is that the CO2 we produce as a result of producing the energy we use acts to keep that 10,000 times as much energy as we produce trapped in our atmosphere, which will make things hot for us.

As I'm sure you can figure out, if we kept ALL of that 10,000 times as much energy, things would be very hot indeed. The energy we produce is irrelevant [almost] to the Greenhouse Effect problem. It's the blanketing effect which keeps that insolation trapped in our ecosphere which is the worry.

Be wary, it's not just the Greenhouse doomsters who lie or are ignorant. It is not a slam dunk that our CO2 output is a good thing rather than a bad thing and that it will dwindle as the decades and centuries roll by.

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