Text 16217, 65 rader
Skriven 2007-02-17 22:08:42 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 16213 av Geo. (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: where the hell is my global warming?
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From: "Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com>

> A single volcanic eruption can lower average global temps by .2 to .4
> degrees within a year or less. We could probably find a way to have a
> significant cooling impact on the planet if we wanted. Because of that I'm
> not too concerned about warming.

That's the same kind of thing I've been saying all along, but we have to spend
money on researching ways to do just that when the time comes. The Mark's and
Britts (and those like you underestimating the damage that ocean level rises
cause) of the world are totally ignoring everything because it's either too
expensive or not doable with current technology is going to lay us wide open in
the future when it may just be too late. If the methane hydrate ice starts
melting under the ocean, we better be ready to do something or quite a few of
us are going to die, and moving to higher ground isn't the answer when you
cannot grow food or have enough oxygen anymore. It's true this is a doom and
gloom prediction that is not that likely, but it *has* happened before, and by
high concentrations of CO2. (Permian extinction 95% of *all* life destroyed)

> And besides, if you look at the predictions, most global warming is going
> on in the areas where it's too fricken cold anyway (1deg change at the
> north pole but only .2 deg change at the equator) so it may end up being a
> good thing.

That 1 degree up north means that people on coastal areas are being effected
more and more, not to mention storm/tidal strengthening.

 > I am concerned about bulldozing and concreting the planet and killing too
> much of it's oxygen production capabilities.

I'm less worried about that than global warming, Ocean algae (diatoms actually)
don't like warm and that's the biggest oxygen producer on earth.

--
Bob Comer


"Geo." <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:45d76e18$1@w3.nls.net...
> "Antti Kurenniemi" <NOantti@SPAManttikPLEASE.com> wrote in message
> news:45d690d8$1@w3.nls.net...
>
>>> I agree, however it's also clear that CO2 levels are sharply up. This
>>> does need to be addressed even if it's not causing global warming.
>>
>> No it doesn't but it is *contributing* to the global climate change.
>> There's a difference...
>
> A single volcanic eruption can lower average global temps by .2 to .4
> degrees within a year or less. We could probably find a way to have a
> significant cooling impact on the planet if we wanted. Because of that I'm
> not too concerned about warming.
>
> And besides, if you look at the predictions, most global warming is going
> on in the areas where it's too fricken cold anyway (1deg change at the
> north pole but only .2 deg change at the equator) so it may end up being a
> good thing.
>
> I am concerned about bulldozing and concreting the planet and killing too
> much of it's oxygen production capabilities.
>
> Geo.
>

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