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Quote by: inthemiddle (there was 20 million in tax payer money spent recently to study the carbom emmisions from cow shit< look it up) |
And if you knew anything at all, you'd know that the results of those studies, as silly as they may sound to the uninformed, are dead serious. While methane causes on 3-9% of greenhouse warming, to 9-25% by CO2,
Methane is about 20 times more efficient as a greenhouse gas than CO2, and the domestic cattle industry produces vast quantities of methane gas.
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Quote by: inthemiddle The climate of the earth does in fact change. Warmer then colder. And it will continue to be this way until the end of time. look at history of the earth. global warming is real, so is global cooling. |
Not on cue it doesn't. Do you honestly think the world's scientists who've been studying this for the last 30 years haven't accounted for natural variation?
Sorry, but the current warming was accurately
predicted, based specifically and entirely on man-made greenhouse gases, and the
only thing -- including sun spots, solar flares, and any number of natural fluctuations -- that accurately accounts for the current dramatic warming trend is the increase in human created greenhouse gases. Period.
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Quote by: inthemiddle and again, even if we do cut back, third world countries will take over as poluters as they advance. |
Not if we lead the way in creating new energy sources, which won't happen as long as Bush, Cheney and their a'wl bidness buddies are running the country. Or, for that matter, any it's-their-land-they-should-be-free-to-pollute-it-as-they-see-fit free market libertarians.
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Quote by: inthemiddle There are a group of trees that are in frozen territory for 11 out of every twelve months, the one month of warmth account for the production of 30% of the earths oxygen, then it freezes again, so if it were to get warmer, more oxygen would be produced. |
Alas, there's also millions of square miles of frozen tundra and perma-frost that, as it thaws due to the warming trend, release millions of tons of CO2 and - something not absorbed by your little group of trees - methane.
This is what's referred to as a 'feedback loop'. A unexpected phenomena created by the warming trend that then causes it to warm even faster.
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