Could we be wrong about global warming?

[Tonington]

Climate change is any climatic change. Global warming is known as the warming expected as a result of an increased radiative forcing, due to human induced changes, largely greenhouse gases. Nothing more and nothing less.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

The Walrus magazine had a recent article stating we will run out of fossil fuels before GW kicks in. Peak oil could save the Earth. Could be big ado about very little.

But I like new green biz myself, dirty Big Oil need competition.

 

[lone wolf]

Nobody pee.... Water vapour is a greenhouse gas

 

[Machjo]

We may be wrong abut global warming, but I think it's clear that there is a limit to our resources none-the-less.

 

[Stretch]

what converts/filters CO2 ?
TREES! if the wankers in control were serious about doing something re climate change, we'd never be alowed to cut down another tree........no, wait....there's no money in that idea.............

 

[lone wolf]

...ask any Brazilian rain forest....

 

[Tonington]

what converts/filters CO2 ?
TREES! if the wankers in control were serious about doing something re climate change, we'd never be alowed to cut down another tree........no, wait....there's no money in that idea.............

It's not just trees, it's plants, and deforestation is one of the big ticket policy issues that gets discussed at the global policy conferences. There of course is money in that idea. You just don't know it.

Obviously there aren't enough plants to deal with all of our excess, or there wouldn't be an increasing saw tooth pattern in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. It would be a stable saw tooth.

Believe it or not, plants require more than just a source of carbon to grow...

 

[AnnaG]

Last I heard, the biggest activity photosynthesis-wise ( ----> oxygen) was done by ocean life.