CO2 at highest level in 800,000 years

[Dove Tail]

This doesn't bode well for the future.

Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Hits Record High Monthly Average

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

[gfretwell]

So is the population and those two numbers have been in lock step for

8000 years. Maybe if we can just find a way to scrub off a few billion people.

[Terry Coombs]

  No , actually that's great ! It means the trees will be healthier and grow more . Or don't you like trees and plants and other growing things either ? Just remember , no plants equals no oxygen . In fact , since you're so concerned about the co2 levels , why don't you just off yourself ? It's a win-win , more oxygen for the rest of us and you can lie there peacefully knowing that you gave your all to stop anthropogenic global warming !

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

All plants use CO2. Our crops will grow better, we want more CO2, just ask a farmer who's used a polytunnel with pumped CO2.

[gfretwell]

Scientific American had an excellent article about it some years ago before we were blaming CO2 on Hummers. The conclusion them was it is caused by the rise in agriculture and destruction of native forests and turf land. They explain a farm harvests the crop and turns the rest under, just about the time it starts being a decent CO2 sink. Even if you do blame it on man's activity, the more people who are here the more activity they will have so the hypothesis holds. Of course it doesn't help that countries like Brazil are burning the rain forest and draining wet lands to grow sugar for motor fuel.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

You mean it'll go back to the way it was before oil and gas were created by rotting vegetation and animals? So just fine then.

[notme]

"Dove Tail" wrote in news:pcqcas$26i$1@dont- email.me:

It's called the Precambrian ERA. There is no "eon" in geologic time. Eon is a term used to make exagerations, especially by those who don't of which they speak.

[gfretwell]

I suspect your google works just like mine but I may still have the hard copy. I just don't feel like looking through 100 magazines so you can change the subject.

[gfretwell]

Bullshit. I told you I may have it in hard copy and you can look for it online as easy as me. I am not here to do your homework.

[gfretwell]

Global warming is more of a real estate problem than a human survival problem. If it gets warmer, crops and people will move north and farther inland. This really affects temperate and arctic regions more than the tropics anyway. There will be a lot of people on the coasts who have to move and there will be ocean front property in Orlando. The biggest problem is with the people who have to move across national borders but it is still a migration, not an extinction and it will happen over centuries not years.

[gfretwell]

OK put your money where your mouth is

Scientific American March 2005 How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate?

It will cost you $8 to read it.

Free articles that refer to burning the rain forest are here.

Stop getting your science information from the daily KOS and you won't look so stupid.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

What do you think's going to happen, dinosaurs will magically be resurrected and kill us all? Cut the alarmist bullshit.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

So not a problem at all. People are migrating all the time anyway.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Then they did it wrong. You're quoting ONE study. Go speak to some farmers and educate yourself.

Oh and the warmer temperatures will help the plants too. Why do you think the UK can't grow oranges?

[trader_4]

rote:

That's assuming that the only effects are warming and sea level rise, which is very optimistic and likely wrong. What happens if weather pattern s change that make the main food growing regions incapable of producing? What happens if the ocean conveyor currents that we are only beginning to understand the roles of, suddenly change or reverse? We're really impacting things we don't fully understand.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Easier to just open the window?

[gfretwell]

Yeah, it took me about 30 seconds you lazy bastard.

[gfretwell]

Food will grow somewhere, like I said, it is just a real estate problem ... but so are most wars. Mankind as a whole will be safe if we have global warming, it is nuclear war we should be worried about.

[Terry Coombs]

  Well , sure ! Out here in the woods I do that when the temps are amenable , but in the city , not so much . I mean , who wants to breath exhaust fumes and all the other crap floating around in city air ? Out here there's pretty much nothing but trees and other growing things for miles around us . The average population density of our county is 20/sq mile , the nearest large city is Little Rock with a density of 1,673/sq mile or approximately 80 times more crowded ... I think I'll stay here .

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I really don't see the point in living in a city when you can live a few miles away, still close enough to drive into the city for shopping and work, and also the house is cheaper and bigger!