Climate Denial Crock of the Week

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Oh, another thing making the planet a desert...chemlawns.

[Doctor Rock]

Well the oceans are too salty now so even if the ice just melts into the sea it will help with that.

AND it's possible that some water will get trapped on land and create fresh water lakes in Greenland.

Have you ever heard of the Younger Dryas cooling event?

The prevailing theory holds that the Younger Dryas was caused by a significant reduction or shutdown of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to a sudden influx of fresh water from Lake Agassiz and deglaciation in North America.

North Atlantic thermohaline circulation: that means the normal oceanic sea circulation that keeps Northern Europe warm.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

The earth is a big place and it's strange what happens to one part when another part changes.

[Doctor Rock]

The earth is a big place and it's strange what happens to one part when another part changes.

That's why I think it is generally better to mess as little as possible with the whole thing.   

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Trees are growing faster and could buy time to halt global warming
Plants and trees are growing faster because of rising carbon dioxide levels, potentially buying Earth more time to address global warming, according to scientists.

By Urmee Khan
Published: 12:02PM BST 05 Apr 2009

Comments 14 | Comment on this article
Trees are growing faster and could buy time to halt global warming
Tropical rainforest Photo: MARTIN POPE

The phenomenon has been discovered in a variety of flora, ranging from tropical rainforests to British sugar beet crops.

It means they are soaking up at least some of the billions of tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere by humans that would otherwise be accelerating the rate of climate change.
 
Plants survive by extracting CO2 from the air and using sunlight to convert it into proteins and sugars.

Since 1750 the concentration in the air has risen from of CO2 278 parts per million (ppm) to more than 380 ppm, making it easier for plants to acquire the CO2 needed for rapid growth.

A study by the University of Leeds, published in the science journal Nature, measured the girth of 70,000 trees across 10 African countries and compared them with similar records made four decades ago.

On average, the trees were getting bigger faster and researchers found that each hectare of African forest was trapping an extra 0.6 tons of CO2 a year compared with the 1960s.

If this is replicated across the world's tropical rainforests they would be removing nearly 5 billion tons of CO2 a year from the atmosphere.

Scientists have been looking for a similar impact on crop yields and the experiments generally suggest that raised CO2 levels would boost the yields of mainstream crops, such as maize, rice and soy, by about 13 per cent.

Professor Martin Parry, head of plant science at Rothamsted Research, Britain's leading crop institute, said: "There is no doubt that the enrichment of the air with CO2 is increasing plant growth rates in many areas.

"The problem is that humans are releasing so much that plants can remove only a fraction of it," he said.

Humans are believed to generate about 50 billion tons of the gas each year.

However, scientists have warned against drawing false comfort from such findings. They point out that although levels will boost plant growth, other factors associated with climate change, such as rising temperatures and drought, are likely to have a negative effect.

Fred Pearce, environment consultant for New Scientist, said: "We know that trees do absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and about half is taken up from nature and half of that is by forests. But it doesn't change the story greenhouse gases are accumulating more than 2 per cent a year.

"It won't buy us much time as humans are releasing much more CO2 into the air, but it is useful information if it helps to protect existing forests."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5109251/Trees-are-growing-faster-and-could-buy-time-to-halt-global-warming.html

[Doctor Rock]

From the Scientific American web site: Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense

[Doctor Rock]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/P70SlEqX7oY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/P70SlEqX7oY</a>

[Doctor Rock]

J. Abraham, scientist from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, replies to Chris Monckton, climate change denier. 

http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/

[Bizarro]

Apparently, this is the  crock of the YEAR. We sure don't update this topic much.

[Doctor Rock]

I could easily update it quite often... Denier bullshit is one of those things that drive me spare.  But I don't wanna be a bore.  The topic is called Climate Denial Crock of the Week because of the Youtube vids, not because I intended to update it all the time. 

[Bizarro]

This article goes after various climate-change-denial techniques very well:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/01/forbes-rich-list-of-nonsense/

[Doctor Rock]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/JrxE3uwHECs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/JrxE3uwHECs</a>

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

This whole argument is a stupid waste of time.  They don't trust science, don't understand it, and won't listen to you.  You're arguing with infant mentality here.  They don't believe you because they don't want to.  It's as simple as that.


People should focus on what they can do personally to reduce their emissions or the emissions in their neighborhood.

I know you're a good fella, Dan.  You have a bike and you probably don't mow your lawn.

But I bet most crappiteers who are climate paranoiacs have 2 cars in their garage and mow their lawn every week.


Stop arguing and do something if you care.

[Doctor Rock]

I'm not arguing with anyone, Kurt.  I'm simply giving you information about a subject I care about. 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Any essay makes an argument, Dan, so of course you're arguing.  It's just such a pathetic debate.  "It's happening"/"it's not happening"  The rhetoric on both sides is stunted.  It's like you're trying to convince a child to clean her room when she won't even agree it's dirty.

You've convinced everyone you're going to and it's time to move on.

I think you'd have more luck persuading global warming deniers against Noah's Ark or Jesus.


Anyway, most global warming alarmist seem to think it's too late to reverse at this point.

What I'm saying is, for those who believe and who care...DO SOMETHING.

The suburbs pollute as well as industry.   So look in the mirror.  Look at your own property, look around your neighborhood, realize you're living in a desert, accept responsibility, and do something.