Posted on 04/26/2007 10:29:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, c'mon now...it's not wasted if a significant portion of those billions ends up lining the pockets of Al Gore and his friends at Lehman Brothers Holdings.
Printing up all those carbon offset certificates ain't cheap, you know. 8^)
But if plants grow more they will put more oxygen in the atmosphere and, as anyone who has been in a hospital knows, oxygen creates an explosive atmosphere. So the planet really could catch fire and burn up like Algore says. We need to get rid of all these dangerous gasses. /s
I hope they recover what they don't use. I shudder to think that they contribute to global warming just to provide us with some winter tomatoes, or even flowers.
[Except, of course, the irrevocably lost value of what we could have produced or accomplished with the money we threw down the “global warming” rat hole.]
That, my friend, is considered lost opportunity costs. It is the product of spending beyond the point of dimishing returns. I would go one step further, along the diminishing returns side, and add; Humans have taken several actions that, later were found to make a problem worse (MTBE in CA, DDT banned around the world, etc.)
The lost opportunity to control inflation and tax's cost Louis XVI his head.
Bttt...
NO ONE EXPECTS the GW Inquisition!!! 'Spose that he'll get the comfy chair?
One of the most classic cases of begging the question ever spoken. Should be part of every class on elementary logic.
They destroyed the anthracite coal industry with that stupid acid rain nonsense.
Unfortunately, the public has been whipped up into such a frenzy about this that someone JUST doing something ...regardless of how utterly foolish... might not only be accepted, but also encouraged.
Stuff like Carbon Credits and driving around in Hybrid cars are harmless and allow people to get a wonderfully smug feeling that they are personally saving the Earth. But, in the long run, they don't really amount to a hill of beans. Some truly drastic action might cause permanent harm.
Riiight. Of COURSE, they do!
They go in there at night and suck it up with a vacuum cleaner, and blow it out again the next morning.
I thought everybody does that.
The Earth is getting warmer because it is supposed to.
Do you get a headache holding your CO2 in overnight?
THANK YOU! I`ve been saying, screaming this to liberals for the past few years but they just don`t get it...
Composition of dry atmosphere of earth, by volume.
ppmv: parts per million by volume
Nitrogen (N2) 780,840 ppmv (78.084%)
Oxygen (O2) 209,460 ppmv (20.946%)
Argon (Ar) 9,340 ppmv (0.9340%)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) 383 ppmv (0.0383%)
Neon (Ne) 18.18 ppmv
Helium (He) 5.24 ppmv
Methane (CH4) 1.745 ppmv
Krypton (Kr) 1.14 ppmv
Hydrogen (H2) 0.55 ppmv
The atmosphere is composed of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxegen and 0.04% CO2 which you can literally read as ZERO POINT ZERO! Of that amount that is ZERO POINT ZERO, it doesn`t take a fool to imagine how incredibly low human emissions are.
Liberals are literally using as evidence the deviation of that 0.04%..One day it is 0.0383%, then a few years later it`s 0.04%, and this they claim is evidence! 17 more molecules of CO2 in a million molecules of air, and for this they are holding these "Live Earth" concerts in July, for a "Climate in crisis"!!
http://www.liveearth.msn.com/
17 additional freggin` molecules that could have come from anywhere, from shaking the reader, even from the hippie burping while doing it, and THIS is their evidence!
Global warming by humans is just as impossible as humans reducing CO2 in the atmosphere (which by the way if reduced to 0.02% basically stops photosynthesis in plants - If liberals love trees so much you would think they would be wanting MORE CO2!)
At 0.02%...When the air has less that 0.02% CO2, photosynthesis basically ends.
Right now the atmosphere has approx. 0.0383% to 0.04% CO2..You would think all these lib tree huggers would be going in the OPPOSITE direction saying “More CO2”, but noooooo, it seems the current lib fad or idiots like Al Gore and Sheryl Crow is to reduce CO2 which is pracically impossible.
If you removed every CO2 expelling animal on this planet, every car, every industrial plant, you couldn`t even measure the difference unless you counted in parts per million, and even then, the difference would be literally a few molecules here and there.
The reason is there are just too many PLANTS on earth which out number CO2 expelling life forms BILLIONS to one. Look at this photo of South America from space, all you see is GREEN and it ain`t green from cars, people, volcanoes or animals, and this is just one continent!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/South_America_satellite_orthographic.jpg
Tell that to all the MENSA rejects in the California legislature.
They have made that asinine assertion officially law, in California.
CO2 Bookmark, thanks for a good one.
So where else does the energy come from to explain the warming, if not from the sun ?
BUMP
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