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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Completely nonsensical argument. Nobody I have ever heard or read has the slightest problem with Renewables. However anyone who can do sixth grade math can see that renewables are not adequate for our level of civilization and whether or not renewables are valid or not valid has nothing to do with whether the globe is warming. I mean, this is just nonsense pretzel logic.


15 posted on 07/10/2017 10:14:24 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Completely nonsensical argument. Nobody I have ever heard or read has the slightest problem with Renewables. However anyone who can do sixth grade math can see that renewables are not adequate for our level of civilization and whether or not renewables are valid or not valid has nothing to do with whether the globe is warming. I mean, this is just nonsense pretzel logic.

The Climate change nuts scream about CO2 increases. Scientists in the 70's said that deforestation is a reason for high CO2 levels. I seem to remember The Cedars of Lebanon mentioned several times in The Bible were one of the first trees felled to deforestation for human use.

Historically, there were various attempts at conserving the Lebanon cedars. The first was made by the Roman emperor Hadrian; he created an imperial forest and ordered it marked by inscribed boundary stones, two of which are in the museum of the American University of Beirut. Over the centuries, extensive deforestation has occurred, with only small remnants of the original forests surviving. Deforestation has been particularly severe in Lebanon and on Cyprus; on Cyprus, only small trees up to 25 m (82 ft) tall survive, though Pliny the Elder recorded cedars 40 m (130 ft) tall there.

Extensive reforestation of cedar is carried out in the Mediterranean region. In Turkey, over 50 million young cedars are planted annually; covering an area of approximately 300 square kilometres (74,000 acres). Lebanese cedar populations are also expanding through an active program combining replanting and protection of natural regeneration from browsing goats, hunting, forest fires, and woodworms. The Lebanese approach emphasizes natural regeneration by creating proper growing conditions. The Lebanese state has created several reserves including the Chouf Cedar Reserve, the Jaj Cedar Reserve, the Tannourine Reserve, the Ammouaa and Karm Shbat Reserves in the Akkar district, and the Forest of the Cedars of God near Bsharri.

So first, deforestation has existed for at least 2000 years. Why do they think we should get our knickers in a twist now? Second, the logical answer to high CO2 levels is planting trees! When I was in the Boy Scouts decades ago, we did just that. We went on camping trips and spent days with a pointed stick and a backpack or haversack full of pine seedlings planting in remote areas and reforesting logged out land. It is the most logical thing that through photosynthesis plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water to sugar and oxygen.

If the Global Climate liars would advocate this as a solution, I would be all for it and volunteer myself, but instead, they want to kick America back to the Stone Age for our so called sin of exhaling CO2.

28 posted on 07/10/2017 11:05:21 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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