Re: Volcanoes contributing to global warming?
Posted by Uncle Al on Nov 03, 2002 at 18:13
(68.5.243.16)Re: Volcanoes contributing to global warming? (phreakgrrrl)
Go into the technical literature. We know almost to the kilogram how much fossil fuel is burned each year - production and taxation. The anthropomorphic contribution is that plus breathing of men and animals, slash and burn agriculture, and a billion dried dung cooking fires/day in the eco-pure Third World (plus fermenting feces, fermenting rice paddies...).
Two facts boldy emerge:
1) Uncertainty in the global carbon budget is substantially larger than the entire anthropomorphic contribution. Civilization's emissions are lost in the noise.
2) Killing off the poxy Third World would cancel more carbon emissions (CO2 and methane) than shutting off the entire First World.
Go ahead, look it up. Feel free to disprove my contentions - but only from refereed scholarly publications. Remember, 90% of everything tottering on the brink of extinction in 1962's "Silent Spring" is still tottering on the edge of extinciton 40 years later. Test of faith!
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Uncle Al
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