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Jul 11, 2008

CO2 more green than the environmentalists

Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA data. They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%. About 25% of the Earth's vegetated landmass -- almost 110 million square kilometres -- enjoyed significant increases and only 7% showed significant declines. When the satellite data zooms in, it finds that each square metre of land, on average, now produces almost 500 grams of greenery per year. Why the increase? Their 2004 study, and other more recent ones, point to the warming of the planet and the presence of CO2, a gas indispensable to plant life. CO2 is nature's fertilizer, bathing the biota with its life-giving nutrients. Plants take the carbon from CO2 to bulk themselves up -- carbon is the building block of life -- and release the oxygen, which along with the plants, then sustain animal life. As summarized in a report last month, released along with a petition signed by 32,000 U. S. scientists who vouched for the benefits of CO2: "Higher CO2 enables plants to grow faster and larger and to live in drier climates. Plants provide food for animals, which are thereby also enhanced. The extent and diversity of plant and animal life have both increased substantially during the past half-century."

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Jul 12, 2008
 
I don't know why all the hysteria about global warming. Won't we just evolve?
Spitt out of a mut puddle right?
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Jul 12, 2008
 
Unless you guy's don't really believe in evolution? Bite my tongue!!!!!

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Jul 13, 2008
 
Anndee wrote:
Unless you guy's don't really believe in evolution? Bite my tongue!!!!!
I think thats the core of the issue - we need to be adaptable to change rather than trying to keep everything the same. The world has never not changed - why in our stupidity should we try and stop it from doing so now.
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Jul 16, 2008
 
theworldasweknowit wrote:
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I think thats the core of the issue - we need to be adaptable to change rather than trying to keep everything the same. The world has never not changed - why in our stupidity should we try and stop it from doing so now.
We can't do anything about the sun and that's what some think be the cause of any change..
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Jul 22, 2008
 
Global warming is a rediculous issue invented by idiots, have you not heard of the word "cycles"? That's right, "cycles" are all around us in our everyday life and will continue for many hundreds and thousands of years. Some years we will see droughts other years we will see floods, species have come and gone, but we are still here on this planet aren't we.

It is about time we all woke up to ourselves and take this global warming issue with a grain of salt. Global warming has not increased over the last 100 years and I defy anyone to show me positve proof with world temperatures?

How can we can improve this planet? Easy just plant millions of trees and shrubs to attract rainfall. C02 is needed by plants to "pump" out oxygen and to keep us and nature alive. Plant three trees for every one cut down.

Keep up deforestation and we will certainly see the cycles change around the globe, but not with global warming. Everyone is blaming fossil fuels and yet carbon has been around since "Adam was a cowboy" with volcanoes and forest fires.

Scare tactics makes Mr Gore and his cronies a lot of money, this is the big problem in this world "GREED".

Let's get down to bare facts, this planet has been around for last 1.5 billion years and we will see it around for another 1.5 billion years, or until we collide with a meteor?

Global warming is a fast and all it takes is better land management with world governments, less greed and corruption, not the closing down of carbon making industries.
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Jul 23, 2008
 
The word according to Al..........
As a dissenting physicist, I simply can no longer buy the notion
that CO2 produces any significant warming of the atmosphere at any
rate. I’ve studied the atomic absorption physics to death, from John
Nicol’s extensive development to the much longer winded dissertation
by Gerlich & Tscheuschner and everything in between, it simply
doesn’t add up./--Qando.net
<http://www.qando.net/details.aspx... ;
Dr. Kelvin Kemm, former scientist at South Africa’s Atomic Energy Corporation, wrote,“There is no evidence man-made CO2 causes climate change.”—Engineering News <http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php... ;
More and more people are questioning and learning about the bad science. They see and hear the contradictions in the claims, the failure of previous disaster predictions. Enough reports trickle through to raise questions about previous threats. For example, hysteria about arctic sea ice last year dominated the news while the fact Antarctic sea ice reached record levels was barely reported. Similarly, we are not hearing in main stream media about the current situation because the situation has returned to ‘normal’ and that is not good news for the purveyors of doom.
“On a global basis, sea ice anomalies in May 2008 continue to be above the long-term average during the 1979-2008 satellite period - the 10th highest on record. SH (Southern Hemisphere) sea ice is off a bit (in anomaly terms) from record levels earlier in 2008, but remains at near record levels (3rd highest May anomaly).”Climate Audit <http://www.climateaudit.org/... ;
Thanks to the Internet , enough people hear about the real story and enough trickles through to an increasingly skeptical public. They receive the information in the context of their knowledge that weather forecasts are frequently wrong especially beyond 48 hours.
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Jul 23, 2008
 
Why does the myth of humans causing global warming or climate change persist? The obvious answer is money and that is certainly true. In fact it is increasingly true as more and more individuals, companies and countries profit from carbon credits, cap and trade, business opportunities and taxes. We must never forget that a major proponent and marketer of carbon credits was Ken Lay as CEO of Enron or that Al Gore has a company that benefits from them. But there are other forces at work. The mix of socialist ideology with environmentalism as a religion, especially among the few select scientists associated with IPCC tends to transcend financial reward. Dogma has a very powerful determination.
We also have the problem of why apparently intelligent people and especially scientists persist in the face of evidence. Leo Tolstoi, Russian author provided one explanation when he wrote ”I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
Debate exists on many blogs about whether their actions are malfeasance or incompetence. Were the errors made in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) data showing 1998 the warmest year in the US record when it was actually 1934 a genuine error or an adjustment that reinforced the claim by the Director James Hansen and his friend Al Gore that the warming in the 1990s were evidence of the human cause of warming and climate change? It is a debate that will and should expand once it reaches the public forum through mainstream media. The question of accountability for the damage done is another issue.
Al Gore’s ten year threat implies a tipping point. James Hansen and others similarly warn we are close to such a point. Ironically, we are reaching a tipping point, but it is not the one they envisioned. Rather it is the tipping point created by their extremism. A point were the increasing claims and threats become so irrational and ridiculous that they force people to change their perspective even if they still don’t understand the science.
Dr. Tim Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project <http://www.nrsp.com/> ;. Dr. Ball is a renowned environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Ball employs his extensive background in climatology and other fields as the Chairman of Natural Resources Stewardship Project.
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Jul 23, 2008
 
John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel and now with KUSI, San Diego

"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

And like you say science does not support it
Anndee
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Jul 24, 2008
 
No vote on offshore drilling,
dems solution
shut down Congress
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1216855950883...
So you like the gas prices?

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Jul 24, 2008
 
In Australia it has been said we can tap our own oil for $5-$10 a barrel so there is no need for us to import!
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