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To: Eric who wrote (78233)	7/12/2017 12:38:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

I don't know (and neither do you) but I do know that if that's true it means they're on balance not warming.

To: Eric who wrote (78233)	7/13/2017 3:44:09 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 teevee Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

The Gulf Stream is subducting megatons of CO2 when it dives to the bottom of the ocean in the Arctic, with that CO2 not coming back to the surface for 1000 years. Filling the atmosphere with CO2 is an impossible job. People have done the easy part when oil was easy to find and produce. But as the oil price rose, people found ways around buying it. Insulation, living closer to work, efficient engines and vehicles, nuclear and other electricity production, now photovoltaics are competitive and electric cars are economic, airliner efficiency soared with 90% fuel cost cut since the venerable 747 was invented. The amount of CO2 produced per $ of GDP has dwindled over the decades. Now young people spend their time in mobile Cyberspace, which takes near-zero oil unlike when they spent their time cruising freeways in Yank Tank V8s burning gasoline by the ton while fouling the air. With uberized autocars, the number of cars in existence will drop by 90%, roads will be clear, traffic jams evaporate with variable road tolls. Commuting time will become profitable instead of being a cost. <<The oceans of the world are taking up much more CO2 than they are releasing. >> Dudley of BP Oil said recently that peak oil demand will be 2042. But it will actually be 2037 which will also be the year of Peak People unless a catastrophically calamitous cataclysm such as humanized H5N1 reduces the human population. CO2 levels will peak somewhat later. The Greenhouse Effect will be an irrelevancy from the 20th century. Reglaciation will be the worry. People will move to more equable climates and economically attractive places - such as Greece with Tradable Citizenship. Sweden during reglaciation will NOT be attractive. 2019 will see Peak Temperature [predicted by me with 2020 foresight in Oct 2007]. The next solar minimum is coming up and it's going to get chilly... brrrr.... No more Global Warming jamborees in exotic locations while producing giant carbon footprints in private jets. CO2 as a problem is so last century. CO2 is a GOOD thing. Mqurice