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"Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals
An anonymous reader writes "Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station in Hawaii, which sets the global benchmark. More than half of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 if current trends continue."
Yeah, again the evil molecule of carbon dioxide the most vicious poison known to man for plants, animals and man alike, endangers our all well being.
It should be banned, right now, before it kills even more plants!
Global Warming is true, and deadly for your Grandchildren
People truly concerned about the earth wouldn't be breeding more humans.
Chicken Little said the sky was falling. The earth may be getting warmer, but is that so bad? Where was all that carbon, some of which now is being liberated by our modern civilization? The global warming scare mongers tell us that the burning of fossil fuels is the cause of the earth getting warmer. If that is true, the carbon that is now being released must have once been in the atmosphere for living things to use while they were alive, then died and were buried. Therefore in effect our civilization is RETURNING the carbon into the air. Therefore, when the fossil fuels were formed it must've been much warmer than today, but not warm enough to harm life on earth. Most living things generally do better in warmth that in freezing cold. Therefore if mankind managed to liberate ALL carbon now stored as fossil fuels, the cycle would repeat itself.
Recycling is generally considered good, so why is recycling the carbon be considered bad? We know most plants do better in warm places with a high carbon content in the atmosphere. This has been unequivocally established by EXPERIMENT, not mere mathematical modeling based on faulty assumptions. One real-life experiment is worth much more than hundreds of thousands of hours of computer time using up energy for mathematical modeling based on faulty assumptions and insufficient data. So far humanity has managed to release only a tiny fraction of the total carbon stored in the form of hydrocarbons in the crust of the earth.
Global warming, bring it on! If the earth were warmer, humanity would need less fuel to keep warm and would have much more land available which is now freezing cold. There is a whole CONTINENT at the bottom of the earth that could become inhabited by people if it were warm.
A sufficiently advanced simulation is indistinguishable from reality.
And everything seems fine just now doesn't it.
Major temperature changes in the past (over 8 degrees hotter) gave us what we have today.
Morale of the story, planet gets hotter, planet gets colder. Everything else sorts its self out.
I'm not advocating pollution, its just the 'sky is falling' people are completely off the mark.