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

To: neolib who wrote (21828)	6/3/2008 9:43:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

That looked about right [without checking the numbers]. CFCs are an issue for ozone concentrations, not greenhouse effect. As your informant explained, water is the biggie. We have to be very careful we don't scare it away so that it hides in the ice caps, which it has been doing for a long time now, coming out of hiding for only short times before going away again for another hibernation. The way to avoid it running away again is to keep the CO2 levels up and the best way to do that is to burn lots of graveyard carbon which Gaia has malevolently and suicidally stripped from the ecosphere and dumped in permanent carbonaceous and lime deposits. There's an odd concept many people have that Earth is in balance. It is NOT in balance and never has been. Gaia is in fact a suicidal maniac, stripping the necessaries from the ecosphere and burying it. Humans are able to protect life from Gaia's depredations by digging up the carbon and bringing it back to life where it belongs. Which keeps the ice at bay and keeps water in liquid and gaseous phases. Another good effort and those putting in the effort have been rewarded [BP/Shell etc with cash, drivers with transport, governments looting those doing the work]. <Last year, we emitted about 9 GtC, and increased concentrations by ~2ppm CO2.> It would be nice if we could get it up to 10 GtC per year, but people are getting lazy, going for smaller vehicles etc. It's hard work producing that much each year to keep the world warm and to feed the plants. Mqurice