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A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered
Googlesaysmysiteisdangerousanditisn't! writes "A recent article in Science says that researchers in China and the US have found massive carbon uptake in the world's deserts. The effects of this are huge. 35% of the Earth's land surface is desert, and the uptake equates to 5.2 billion tons of carbon sequestered each year. This is more than half of the carbon released by humans. In these 'dry oceans,' the grains of sand allow the carbon dioxide to enter and react with alkaline soil to become carbonates. Another scientist suspects that biotic desert crusts, alkaline soils, and increased precipitation may be driving the uptake."
We have no idea how most of that worked and only a vague idea of what is happening now.
You mean, you have no idea. Don't project your own ignorance onto others.
Study's have show that CO2 is irrelevant as a greenhouse gas.
I say robust. Is it ok for someone to be CONVINCED you're wrong? Is it ok to believe that climate change is a sham and you're a tool of the man? (No offense, but you ARE getting tooled. Look how they got you jumping through hoops!)
Lemme lay this on you: our contribution to the overall system is clearly tiddly-winks. The earth is clearly a self-regulating system. That's why the climate models always blow up when you let them run and say the surface temperature will be 400 degrees in 200 years - these scientists don't factor in that gaia's got an immune system. DUH!
Why can't everyone see what is plainly obvious here: the major inputs to our atmospheric temperatures, the inputs that MATTER, the inputs that can even hope to make a BLIP on the charts are: the variability in solar energy output, the volcanoes, the rotting vegetation, and water vapor. CLOUDS! CLOUDS MATTER!!!
Every attempt to use climate as a political wedge is just another leftist/populist attempt to enslave the populace. We grow tired of the dishonesty.
While I'm here ... The 60's "me" generation can kiss my bright red rosy out on Main Street! I want you to watch in abject horror from your retirement home as Generation X rises to power and undoes all the "progressive" policies you've shoveled on us.
In other words, sowwy, we've decided not to pay all of your medical and pension bills till you die. We're coming and you can't stop us. Oh, and no, we don't care - you taught us well. Tee hee!!
That felt good, have a nice day.
Such a typically liberal response...
If it moves, tax it
If it keeps moving, regulate it
If it stops moving, subsidize it
Tell you what, you want to hike taxes on gasoline? From now on, for every gallon you pump into your car, send the government an additional $4 directly. You can do that, and you'll be doing your part! (your part to making the absurdly inefficient and useless beaurocracy slightly richer)
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."