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- seed0
I watched Inconvenient Truth this weekend. I think it would be hard to deny the parallels in the various graphs. Has anyone here looked into offsetting their energy use?
- seed0
Offsetting via some thing like:
http://www.nativeenergy.com/ or REC's.
- mpfree0
except for the fact that a vast number of rock layers prove otherwise about CO2 levels in prehistoric times.
//I love these self-righteous one-sided enviro- guys.
nothing like ignoring what you want to ignore only.
wait a minute? ha
- Ramanisky20
that is why were going to MARS baby
thats going to be so rad
cant wait
- mpfree0
that is why were going to MARS baby
thats going to be so rad
cant wait
Ramanisky2
(Jan 9 07, 14:49)dude I get to be planet DJ!
:)
- Ramanisky20
I want to be the planets pornstar
if thats cool with everyone else
- Mimio0
Doesn't prove anything. No one even denies that the Earth's atmosphere contained more CO2 60+ million years ago. Maybe you should look at the pre-ice age CO2 levels compared to the present day.
- mpfree0
But mammals lived 60 million years ago according to scientists and in fact flourished during high levels of CO2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam…
and even before, although during the Cretaceous sea-levels were very, very high.
mostly due to a massive upheaval of vegetation and vulcanism, the later of the two being more significant.
- -sputnik-0
check out the ozone hole waxing and waning throughout '06
http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/…
check out other data here:
- lemmys_wart0
ya'll damn foolish to be belev'in we's desended from monkees.
ghad damyn...
- mpfree0
you asked for one academic reference. one right?
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Mid-Cretaceous pCO2 based on stomata of the extinct conifer Pseudofrenelopsis (Cheirolepidiaceae)
Matthew Haworth, University of Oxford, Earth Science, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PR, UK; et al. Pages 749-752.Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major factor that determines global climate, and in order to predict future climate change it is important to understand the role CO2 levels have played in climate systems in the past. One method for reconstructing CO2 concentration involves the relationship between the number of stomata on a leaf and the atmospheric CO2 concentration in which the plant grew. Stomata are the tiny pores through which plants take up CO2, but also lose water at the same time. This means that plants have to balance CO2 uptake against water loss, and can respond to variations in CO2 levels by altering the number of stomata. During periods of high atmospheric CO2, plants can have lower numbers of stomata, and so lose less water while maintaining the same rate of CO2 uptake. This inverse relationship between the number of stomata and atmospheric CO2 allows estimation of the ancient atmospheric CO2 concentration from the density of stomata on fossil leaves. Using the fossil conifer Pseudofrenelopsis, Haworth et al. have reconstructed CO2 levels for the mid-Cretaceous period. The Cretaceous is known to have been a time of relative global warmth, with high levels of atmospheric CO2 responsible for this global greenhouse climate. Their results suggest, however, that atmospheric CO2 levels were lower than previously thought and relatively stable throughout the mid-Cretaceous, rather than dramatically fluctuating, as has been suggested in other reconstructions. Mid-Cretaceous CO2 levels were still significantly higher (2 to 3 times) than current concentration.
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Maybe we will go beyond the level of the Cretaceous, however with that being said who's to say we can't co-exist at those levels. Life, "endothermic mammals", at that point did for how many millions of years!?
According to scientists, the Cretaceous period lasted from 144 to 65 Million. That's 79 Million years long. About average for a Period. We're about 1/65th of that length as humans.
- material-10
funny that only 40% of the pvn will actually see mpfree's lame taunts.
mrdobolina
(Jan 9 07, 14:15)so peaceful in here with fools on ignore
- lemmys_wart0
mpfree is off his meds...
- mpfree0
funny that only 40% of the pvn will actually see mpfree's lame taunts.
mrdobolina
(Jan 9 07, 14:15)so peaceful in here with fools on ignore
material
(Jan 9 07, 15:28)touche. welcome to my list as well
- mpfree0
funny that only 40% of the pvn will actually see mpfree's lame taunts.
mrdobolina
(Jan 9 07, 14:15)taunts? it's factual evidence
ha, nice scientific comeback btw there for mrdobolina
//I can tell he know's a lot more about this than I
- madirish0
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/busin…
"way to go Mr. Grown-Up-In-Charge-of-Monies-and...
- ********0
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/bu...
"way to go Mr. Grown-Up-In-Charge-o f-Monies-and-Stuff". ..
madirish
(Jan 10 07, 05:30)
."Chrysler's chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched a fierce attack on "quasi-hysterical Europeans" and their "Chicken Little" attitudes to global warming."
he probably burped after that statement.
- mrdobolina0
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lo…
crackpot alert.
- mpfree0
this has to have been bumped by mrdobolina or one of his five aliases, considering I have him (them) on ignore and Witt's last post was the 10th.
ha!
Bitch, moan and complain ohhhhh my!
- mrdobolina0
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^^^^^^^^^^^
Jazx's parents.