Carbon Dioxide - 381 ppm - 3.0 ppm/y

In article fHmSf.31758$_f4.16655@trnddc03,
"Clifford" wrote:

"Lloyd Parker" wrote in message
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In article ,
h (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On 16 Mar 2006 08:50:26 -0800, in a place far, far away, "bill"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

"George" wrote in message

He also assumes that the environment in which we all live could
sustain
such levels. I don't think there is any precedent for that
assumption.

I don't think plants will complain.

How do you know? The planet has never sustained those levels.

800 ppm?

800 ppm will easily desertify the planet and melt all the ice.

increased temperature accelerates the evaporation precipitation
cycle, really, you are looking at more tropical type climates and less
desert.

Not to mention the fact that it would probably accelerate plant growth
rates (and in fact such acceleration would prevent the levels from
ever getting that high).

But don't confuse Elifritz with reality.

Then why hasn't the current level caused accelerated plant growth and kept
the
level from growing?

LLLLLLoyd, Read and be enlightened!
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/...arthgreen.html



That wasn't what I asked. If plants growing will absorb all the CO2, why
haven't they done so already? Why is CO2 still increasing?

In article .com,
"raylopez99" wrote:
It's no coincidence that AGW'er and eco-nut Coby Beck is apparently a
racist ("All the general depictions of poor black people as dangerous
animals were wrong" [trying ironically to be sarcastic, but exposing
his racism).

It's no coincidence because AGW'ers, like CB and NobodyYouKnow, are in
fact camouflaged racists,

Sure, Ray, just like your ilk are poorly-camouflaged Nazis.


intent on stopping human growth, for such
trivial things as keeping their property values high (as if letting it
a little colour into their neighborhood would diminish property
values--it would not in fact), and maintaining their uncongested views.

Yep, this is the ugly face of the GW agenda.

RL

Sieg Heil.

In article ,
h (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 06 16:37:28 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Lloyd Parker) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Good point, Scott. "Katrina" was a classic case of mass hysteria.

Actually, it was a classic case of press hysteria. Most of the
reporting turned out to be wrong.
So all those people weren't trapped in the Superdome of Convention Center?

Half of the population isn't still displaced?

I didn't say it was all wrong. Go get a dictionary, and look up the
words "most" and "all."

So what parts were right, in your view?

That there was a hurricane, with a lot of destruction, and that some
people died and many were left homeless.

So in other words, kind of like, oh, maybe, a minor little thing like a house
falling down.

And of course, Bush responded admirably to it, right?

wrote:

Um, it seems increasingly likely that we're right about peak oil
production now, and more and more countries are talking about dumping
fossil fuel electrical production for nukes. Where exactly is all this
CO2 going to be coming from?

From coal. Some of the largest supplies are in the United States, so if
us ingenious Yankees exert our brains and moral authority we can keep a
lot of it in the ground. Burning stuff is for cavemen.

In article ,
Dave Head wrote:

You got that right. Buses suck. Sharing space with strangers sucks.
Waiting
on buses sucks. Having to walk blocks because that's as close as the bus
gets
to where you want to go sucks. Not having service when you want it (like
1:00
AM after the late movie) sucks. Buses suck.

Frequently-running trains, OTOH, don't suck. Mass transit != buses.


Public transportation is for people that can't afford a car!

Absolutely.

Hmm, then why were all those Lexuses and BMWs in the train station
parking lot this morning?

richard schumacher wrote:

Burning stuff is for cavemen.

We're so sorry, we didn't know you guys were still around.

http://cosmic.lifeform.org

In article zLiSf.622431$084.377630@attbi_s22,
"George" wrote:

Except that there is no indication that that is occurring. The fact is
that the Sahara and most other deserts (including those in the Southwestern
U.S.) are expanding.

For a snapshot of the desertification of the central U.S. now in
progress, see for example
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006...g_ou.html#more

In article ,
h (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 06 13:30:51 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Lloyd Parker) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

I didn't say it was all wrong. Go get a dictionary, and look up the
words "most" and "all."

So what parts were right, in your view?

That there was a hurricane, with a lot of destruction, and that some
people died and many were left homeless.

So in other words, kind of like, oh, maybe, a minor little thing like a
house
falling down.

No. You're as terrible at paraphrasing as you are at English
comprehension.

And of course, Bush responded admirably to it, right?

It wasn't Bush's job to respond to it.

Sure it was. It was a national disaster, and he's the president.

The federal government didn't
do that great a job, but it rarely does, federal government being what
it always is. It certainly didn't anticipate how completely
incompetent the local government would be, though perhaps it should
have.
FEMA was supposed to manage emergencies. That's its name.

richard schumacher wrote:
In article ,
Dave Head wrote:

You got that right. Buses suck. Sharing space with strangers sucks.
Waiting
on buses sucks. Having to walk blocks because that's as close as the bus
gets
to where you want to go sucks. Not having service when you want it (like
1:00
AM after the late movie) sucks. Buses suck.

Frequently-running trains, OTOH, don't suck. Mass transit != buses.

Well, partially. They are a whale of a lot better than buses, tho.
Trains, however, are never frequently-enough running, plus you have to
share space with people, which means you can't eat, smoke, listen to
your radio, CD, DVD, etc. and headphones don't count 'cuz they also
suck, etc. Trains are also slow because they stop at each station
regardless of whether you want to get off there, so the average speed
goes way down.

A train that would be faster than a car in _all_ traffic conditions,
not just rush hour, _might_ not suck so bad, but you'd still have to
share space with the likes of Colin Furgeson, the guy that shot up the
LI RR some years ago, killing people at will just 'cuz he was a
nut-case. That's harder to do to someone with some mobility like when
they're in their cars, and they just might run you down, too.

Public transportation is for people that can't afford a car!

Absolutely.

Hmm, then why were all those Lexuses and BMWs in the train station
parking lot this morning?

'Cuz traffic sucks too...

Dave Headd

"Scott Nudds" wrote in message
Ya, we saw a lot of that during the Bush's Katrina Fiasco.


"El Guapo" wrote
Good point, Scott. "Katrina" was a classic case of mass hysteria.

I don't remember seeing anyone hysterical in reports of the disaster. But
I do remember seeing the Bush Failure telling his political appointee to
FEMA that he was doing "one heck of a good job" while bodies were rotting in
the floodwaters, and while FEMA was preventing food, medicine, and doctors
from providing aid to the victems.

Over 1 million meals ready to eat were flown in from Europe, only to have
FEMA destroy them rather than provide them as relief to the trapped city
residents.

Trucks carrying ice were divered from state to state for days by FEMA
officials until the crisis was over, at which time they were told to dump
their cargo in land fills and go home.

Tens of thousands of mobile homes were purchased by FEMA and then left
unoccupied for months, some never occupied at all.

Yes, this was a wonderful example of the failure of Republicanism and
George - "no one ever predicted the levies would fail" - Bush in
particular.