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What about energy demands for air-conditioning?

Seeing as how our PM keeps running to the Queens representative whenever he gets in over his head perhaps we should return to a more stable and less complex form of government. Instead of all the huge expense of elections and paying for several hundred MP who've basically been sidelined by a...

No we're talking about mans ability to emit on top of natural processes. Maybe we should just get all those pesky plants and animals to stop all their activity so we can keep doing what we're doing. Then again we'd shortly run out of food and breathable oxygen.

It's been about 250 million years since natural processes released fossil hydrocarbon deposits on the scale we're seeing now with human activity. Erosion and other natural processes are glacial in comparison to current human activity. Surface oil seeps and weathering of coal deposits don't even...

Volcanic activity replaces the CO2 as hydrocarbons are laid down in sedimentary formations. The VERY long term trend is towards less and less atmospheric CO2 as the planet interior cools and volcanic activity declines. At some point hundreds of millions of years from now there won't be enough...

You're talking about current reliance, I'm talking about long-term sustainability. The amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth vastly outweighs any potential human needs and it's not going to run out any time soon.

Yes, water vapour is the largest component in the greenhouse effect, so that increasing smaller contributors like CO2 can create a feedback loop which greatly increases the effect. More CO2 equals slightly higher temperatures which equals more evaporation which equals even higher temperatures...

The oceans are a net carbon sink not emmiter. And plant and animal emmissions are part of the natural carbon cycle and don't result in a net increase of the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels does. It takes plant and animal matter accumulated over millions of years...

With wind farms you're changing the wind patterns at ground level where they're going to have the greatest effect on soil. For me it's all about trying to maitain a energy model that is still focused on monopolies for economic benefits. With effective solar you don't need widespread...

Solar power generation is already being done at a distance of 93 million miles, the only challenge remaining is collection and storage of that energy. Some techniques such as passive lighting and heating of homes and buildings have been around for thousands of years. It's a much better...

Good one... Wind power may not be the answer either, there's evidence it can result in soil desication and the vibrations caused by the huge spinning blades may be harmful to people living close to wind farms. Solar is really the only sustainable way to go long term to meet energy demand.

Who's still debating this?? As Niflimir points out it's been well established that CO2 absorbs infra-red radiation, such as is re-emitted from the earths' surface as it is heated by solar radiation. It's like adding layers of blankets to a bed. Human activity produces many times the amount...

What do you think? Harper has now admitted that we can't defeat the taliban like those terrible Liberals and Taliban Jack have stating been for years, we're now even willing to talk with the "murdering scumbags" as Rick Hillier refered to them as he was boosting the conservatives in the press...

you can almost see the oil dripping out of everything walter posts here:lol:

Ocean currents don't reduce the total amount of energy in the global system, they redistribute it. The simple fact is CO2 transmits visable light and absorbs infrared. Sunlight that hits the earths surface heats it up and some is reemitted as infrared which the increasing levels of CO2...

So much for a transparent and accountable government, we have even less access to information under Harper than we did under Chretein and Martin. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/05/02/cairs.html?ref=rss&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r5:c0.0292333 It wasn't there to serve the government, it was...

After two term of the last conservative government Canada just about came apart. Many people see Mulroney as being more interested in US interests than Canadian and after his party disintigrated in 1993 many of its members went into the Bloq trying pull Quebec out of confederation or the Reform...

Once again our Prime Minister is showing just how unsuited he is to running a real democracy. The opposition has raised justified concerns over a very serious issue of the conservatives attempting to buy the vote of a terminally ill Chuck Cadman and Harpers response has been to use the courts to...

This came out a while ago and pretty much confirms what I've thought about Harper and his supporters from the start. Is there really room in a democracy for parties that want to do away with real political choice? This is one of the big reasons I support Dion, he's one of the few...

I admire you Tonington, you've got a lot more patience than me. I gave up trying to have a rational discussion with people who have an amazing ability to ignore overwhelming evidence.