GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES SOIL TO RELEASE CARBON -STUDY
Oh no! Its scary urgent and nothing we are doing now is working! We're doomed, we're doomed!
Oh for god's sake ... give it a rest already. Look at some of the phrases they use:
- "Our findings suggest the soil part of the equation is scarier than we had thought..."
- "The consequence is that there is more urgency about doing something."
- "These losses thus completely offset the past technological achievements
in reducing CO2 emissions,..."
There is some good news here though, this study is further proof that the Kyoto Protocals are a boondogle:
International efforts like the Kyoto protocol, which came into effect in February this year, have been aimed at stopping climate change by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by industry.
But those efforts don't take into account carbon trapped in soil, about 300 times the amount released each year by burning fossil fuels.
Posts
1 comments:
BP - You've exaggerated a bit. The article about the panel discussion on global warming (which impressively included the inventor of CO2, Al Gore) said we are on track for a 430,000 year high of C02 parts per million. Not the 1 million year high you referenced.
430,000 years out of 6 billion is a microsecond on the geological clock. For all we know we'll be shivering through an ice age in 50 years. In fact, if you do a bit of research you'll find that during the 1970's experts like Dr. Stephen Schneider warned of an impending ICE AGE because of atmospheric pollutants.
As for the article about Bangladesh, all it proves is that Kyoto is a boondoggle. It allows industrialized countries like Holland to go in and do some basic (relatively) inexpensive cleanup in a third world country and get rich selling the carbon credits to other countries so they can keep on polluting at the same level. Kyoto only shifts the so called CO2 pollutants around - it doesn't decrease them.
What is the moral of the story? Man is just as much a part of nature as anything else. So is C02. Mother Nature does as Mother Nature wants and our control and influence over her is negligible. Should we be good stewards of the environment? Absolutely. Are we a plague on the face of the earth? Absolutely not.
Post a Comment