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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7428)	3/7/2006 7:15:43 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12249

MAurice, I'm sorry I didn't finish my sentence, I was going to go on and talk about experiments where measurements were made. These experiments showed that in the real world (some part of it) Co2 didn't lead to increased growth and thus carbon fixation. It isn't true that "everything will be OK because the CO2 will increase plant growth, which will soak up all the excess Co2." It's more complicated than that. Global climate is very complicated. It can change quickly. There are records going back thousands of years. Not on paper, but in tree rings and the air trapped in ice cores. Cores from Antarctica show that temperatures there have change very quickly in the past. People have speculated that Co2 could cause a rise in the global temperature, and that any change could switch the climate into a different equilibrium, so, yes, another result could be that temperatures plummet. Co2 has been rising since the start of the industrial revolution, and that rise is very well documented at least since the fifties. Climate appears to be changing - witness the increase in severe hurricanes. The climate change might not be due to the increase in Co2, and it certainly won't be all bad for every point on the globe. (Who knows, life at Tierra Del Fuego's might look up!) It still seems prudent to scale back the global experiment upon which we started with the Industrial Revolution. I'm not suggesting we go back to horse and carts, but I do think it's prudent to do those things that don't cost us much. Any scaling back in Co2 emissions will be arbitrary. Most "maximum permitted" quantities are arbitrary - whether they are for radiation exposure, mercury in fish, or tri-butyl lead. As for your lawn. I'm very glad you have kept mowing it. Have you really never added fertilizer? Come to think of it, I don't remember ever adding fertilizer to a lawn in England. Ok, I was going to suggest a source for your lawn's growth, but the I'd have to posit the same source for lawns where I've lived! Glad to hear Hayes is well. I hope the same is true of the rest of your family. Let me tell you and others a little of the Qualcomm family. Some of us went to the Qualcomm AGM today, and followed it up with a trip to the Dakota Bar & Grill. The QCOM presentation was upbeat, but it was really fun to jaw with Eric Daniels, HArvey Rosencrantz, Jim Mullens, and another Jim. I owe Eric a lunch! You all missed out. Ashley P.S I've now seen all your other posts MAurice. I can't address them. I won't address them. You type far faster than I!