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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Sam who wrote (16425)9/26/2007 8:59:56 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
That is an utterly political tract. You should read the most recent IPCC report. That is the "best guess" among leading climatologists and other scientists. CO2 is up to about 387ppm in the atmosphere as of about 2 years ago, and has been climbing rapidly especially since 1970.

How is that article anymore "political" than GW adherents asserting that atmospheric CO2 increases are man-made while IGNORING THE FACT that oceanic phytoplankton have decrease by some 20-30% over the past 20 years??

Would not such a decrease ALSO result in increase CO2 levels in the air?

Think of atmospheric CO2 levels as a balanced scale.. With all the proper conditions in balance for proper phytoplankton growth, the balance will seldom fluctuate. Any increase in CO2 is "sequestered" by extra phytoplankton growth (preferable silica-shelled Diatoms).

But remove the proper nutrients (iron and silica) from the ocean, or just have a disturbance that interrupts the normal supply, and phytoplankton will remain in dormancy.

And if they are dormant, they aren't using up CO2, now are they??

It's the 800 pound gorilla in the living room that the GW adherents seem to DELIBERATELY ignore.

It's like blaming air pollution for killing your lawn when, in fact, it's because you forgot to fertilize and water it.

Now can you offer up an opinion as to why it's not important to factor in decreasing levels of global oceanic phytoplankton in the analysis of atmospheric CO2 levels? Or is just an argument for the sake of arguing?

Because, from my perspective, the REAL QUESTIONS (and potential solutions) are being TOTALLY IGNORED..

And for the life of my I just can't seem to understand why.

Hawk
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