From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 16:11:21 MST
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
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> But again, we would encounter the release of COČ in its production. The
> World-Watch Institue advocates increased use of natural gas for this reason.
> Perhaps Germany's electricity will then come from natural gas produced in
> Australia or the Middle East?
Or the ANWR...
The WWI is typically ignorant of the actual impact of exponential curves
on consumption and excretion. It is irrelevant if natural gas produces
20-50% less CO2 than coal per BTU. If your consumption is increasing
faster than the rate of conversion, then your emissions continue to
increase as a whole.
Now, this is assuming that the Greenhouse effect as an anthropogenic
threat is real. The latest research shows that the hilariously short
period datasets used by the proponents of the anthropogenic theory are
quite sadly.... off. The Milankovitch Cycle of warming over the past
thousand years accounts for a minimum of half the current observed
warming of this past century, and the growth of localized urban
greenhouse effects account for a good share of the rest (i.e. the
weather centers stay in one place in urban areas while growth occurs
around them with increasing local pollution and local warming, with
greater than actual reported results).
Now, if anything accounts for the bubble of the last 30 years, it is the
CFC emissions with the ozone hole UV messing up the natural carbon
sequestration patterns of oceanic phytoplankton. Banning CFCs should
repair that little problem, and improve natural sequestration of CO2
back to its pre-air-conditioning days.
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