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Thread #91225   Message #2318219
Posted By: pdq
17-Apr-08 - 09:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Global warming?
Subject: RE: BS: Global warming?
The subject of this thread is Global Warming It is not about me. Sorry so many folks feel the need to throw brickbats at anyone who will not parrot the 'party line', but that is their shortcoming.

Just something to think about: all this Global Warming we are supposed to worry about, and spend 3 trillion dollars fixing, is in the future. All we have so far, that anyone can agree on, is a slight rise in average ambient air temperature of 1 degree F, and that has occurred since about 1840, a period of over 150 years. We also have an increase of atmospheric CO2 from 290 parts per million to the current 380 PPM. Both these changes are beneficial to plant growth and crop production. About 2 more degrees rise will be a good thing for native plants and animals, and it will increase crop yeid to feed the enormous Third World population growth which really is happening.

Unfortunately, there is just as much chance of a 2 degree drop in temperature as there is rise. We have nothing to do about it. It will be the combined result of many naturally-occurring events that we have no control over. Predict the day of the Second Coming or the next San Francisco earthquake, you have just as much chance of being right.