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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (18704)	12/20/2007 8:57:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Neo, that shows how trivial is the CO2 production by humans. CO2 is very rapidly absorbed and produced naturally. Human production is tiny compared with natural processes when they get going. My point was that in the absence of CO2 from humans, the rate of absorption would be quick. It would not take a century for the CO2 levels humans have produced to revert to the natural "background" levels. How on Earth do you get that idea from anything I have written? <Do you think CO2 in the atmosphere would decline to zero without humans? > I am far more worried about glaciation than greenhouse effect. We could go into ice age in as short a time as two years. Hopefully CO2 levels are preventing that, but I doubt they are sufficient yet. The deserts are huge, the oceans are vast, the clouds are too. Chlorophyll is holding its own. Barely. It would be easy for a layer of snow to cover that light absorbing layer and replace it with the reflective surface of snow. CO2 had dwindled to world record lows in the midst of ice age. All humans have done have ephemerally pushed it back up a bit. Holding levels up will be difficult. There is vast effort going into producing CO2. The Iraq war is tiny by comparison. If those CO2 production efforts falter, we'll be in trouble. Nature will very quickly reabsorb that CO2 and the ice age will be upon us as stupid Suicidal Gaia freezes up. Mqurice