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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (21937)	6/11/2008 9:13:26 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Won't the CO2 be returned to the atmosphere when the fuel is burned? .. he will be depleting the atmosphere of CO2 It seems to me that Ventner's proposal would be CO2 neutral.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (21937)	6/12/2008 10:06:23 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

CO2 in parts per million, PPM has no properties that effect Earth's environment, well plants have adapted to consume CO2 at scarce levels, so a doubling CO2 would likely increase plant growth using sunlight and water to make more plant. It makes sense that as plants now grow and produce hydrocarbons that microbes could be engineered to produce hydrocarbon fuels. There is no data in the 600,000 of proxy temperatures showing CO2 going down and driving temperature. The only logical explanation of CO2 vs proxy temperatures supposes that temperatures drives the PPM of CO2 by the known property of ocean water to dissolve or hold more CO2 as it's temperature is lowered.