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Urbane Guerrilla · 12-29-2007, 05:47 AM

Round One of that stuff was too much even for that great guardian of the Republic's interest, Bill Clinton, to swallow.

Either you're genuinely interested in putting the lid on greenhouse gases -- better burn that methane, 'cos it's about twenty times the greenhouse gas CO2 is -- or your genuine interest is in sandbagging the US economy. The policies set forth will clearly show which, and frankly, gentlemen, I'm not persuaded our power of climate prognostication is all that good. There's still that "Earth will freeze in the future" scare from some decades past in living memory, and atmospheric phenomena are still harder than hell to predict longterm. For instance, how much CO2 increase does it take to kick up the activity of oceanic phytoplankton and their concomitant critters? Earth's original fraction of CO2, comparable to Venus', got precipitated out as calcium carbonate by bioactivity.

Sandbagging the US economy reduces the global economy by one fifth.

And that's all without reading Merc's link, even.

12-29-2007, 05:47 AM	#2
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Round One of that stuff was too much even for that great guardian of the Republic's interest, Bill Clinton, to swallow. Either you're genuinely interested in putting the lid on greenhouse gases -- better burn that methane, 'cos it's about twenty times the greenhouse gas CO2 is -- or your genuine interest is in sandbagging the US economy. The policies set forth will clearly show which, and frankly, gentlemen, I'm not persuaded our power of climate prognostication is all that good. There's still that "Earth will freeze in the future" scare from some decades past in living memory, and atmospheric phenomena are still harder than hell to predict longterm. For instance, how much CO2 increase does it take to kick up the activity of oceanic phytoplankton and their concomitant critters? Earth's original fraction of CO2, comparable to Venus', got precipitated out as calcium carbonate by bioactivity. Sandbagging the US economy reduces the global economy by one fifth. And that's all without reading Merc's link, even. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.