What I want to know is how an equivalent amount of trees planted -- say, equivalent to the number we've cut down -- would affect the heat transfer from south to north.
There are indications that the oxygen level may have been 35% back then, as compared to 21% now. That would have affected maximum size of many species.
It also would affect the effects of an impact event. One possible extinction event would have been continent-scale firestorms sweeping out from impact crater(s), and higher oxygen levels would have increased the spread of fire. It has been observed that many survivors are ones which live in shelter -- many hives exist in sheltered locations.
Yup. Who listens to music? Maybe the RIAA thinks they control the serfs in their kingdom and they all must buy a certain amount of music each quarter.
Now we buy four DVDs of video for one movie, an entire season of a TV show, update our blog, catch up on our Internet favorites, and listen to the drive time hosts on the radio talking about what is on the three dozen TV news channels.
Oh, yeah, bumper music is handy for filling the time between commercials before the hosts start talking again.
Do you worry about rocks being biodegradable? A piece of plastic is just a particularly soft rock. Even softer was the rock oil of which it was probably made (petra-oleum).
However, we could be processing our garbage to convert stuff like that to fuel. Pollution? Well, at least the large amount of paper in the garbage got its carbon from the atmosphere in the first place...
The primary limitation is the maximum weight we can get to the Earth/Moon Lagrange points. Once at the L-points, the cargo pretty much travels one gravity slingshot to the next with nearly no fuel expenditure.
I'd prefer we get to the interstellar gravitational-thermal equivalence zones and travel via Alderson jump points.
Using thermal depolymerization, various organic material can be converted to oil and methane. In the first commercial plant, unwanted parts of turkeys are processed.
In that process, CO2 is taken from the atmosphere by growing plants. The plants/seeds are fed to turkeys. The turkeys are converted to oil/methane. The oil/methane is burned and releases CO2 -- to the atmosphere, where it can again be converted by growing plants. The process is powered by solar energy.
Actually, some of the carbon ends up as charcoal. That is easier to sequester if you want to do so.
I think you're referring to the most recent 2 years of about-50 years of Mauna Loa sampling. That means the last 2 years are 4% of the samples. 4% makes this an "unusual" level, apparently.
And as others point out, 50 years is not long... the difference is that this is direct measurement while the others are more ambiguous. If such a 2-year peak was captured in ice, and then leaked into the adjoining 50 years of ice, then such a peak is lost.
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Forest cover is 3/4ths of what it was in 1630. (Powell)
"The forest cover in the U.S. has actually increased in the last 100 years" Note also the climate has been altered as the central prairie has been replaced by farmland...and erosion control effects.
It also would affect the effects of an impact event. One possible extinction event would have been continent-scale firestorms sweeping out from impact crater(s), and higher oxygen levels would have increased the spread of fire. It has been observed that many survivors are ones which live in shelter -- many hives exist in sheltered locations.
I'm not sure exactly why, but I like this post.
All your honey are bee long to us.
Yup. Who listens to music? Maybe the RIAA thinks they control the serfs in their kingdom and they all must buy a certain amount of music each quarter.
Now we buy four DVDs of video for one movie, an entire season of a TV show, update our blog, catch up on our Internet favorites, and listen to the drive time hosts on the radio talking about what is on the three dozen TV news channels.
Oh, yeah, bumper music is handy for filling the time between commercials before the hosts start talking again.
Obviously everyone else is also
Actually, the UNFCCC's Kyoto Protocol requires developed countries to give funds to undeveloped countries. So it does affect undeveloped countries.
This trophy is so gaudy that it requires a chase plane. Does the thing fly on its own?
Or does the check bounce so high that it was the check which required a chase plane?
As far as I'm concerned, the more psychics that are teleported the better. Or whatever the Air Force wants to call it, as long as they vanish.
Then the robot says "This is not the test course" as it falls to the ground.
However, we could be processing our garbage to convert stuff like that to fuel. Pollution? Well, at least the large amount of paper in the garbage got its carbon from the atmosphere in the first place...
I invite your caster-riding overlord out on the sidewalk or an average parking lot.
I'm sure "GTA:Redmond" will be ready first.
No, Microsoft has been saying that the problem is how you use it.
Just call him obs. rev. Moore.
No. John Kerry, well-known Catholic, has not been elected yet.
Obviously they'll make you play as a dead man.
I believe the proper design for the beam projector is a sphere the size of a small moon.
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Are you near me? I'm parked at 1st and Elm in Springfield.
I'd prefer we get to the interstellar gravitational-thermal equivalence zones and travel via Alderson jump points.
That's not what I heard.
That's what I told you.
Using thermal depolymerization, various organic material can be converted to oil and methane. In the first commercial plant, unwanted parts of turkeys are processed.
In that process, CO2 is taken from the atmosphere by growing plants. The plants/seeds are fed to turkeys. The turkeys are converted to oil/methane. The oil/methane is burned and releases CO2 -- to the atmosphere, where it can again be converted by growing plants. The process is powered by solar energy.
Actually, some of the carbon ends up as charcoal. That is easier to sequester if you want to do so.
And as others point out, 50 years is not long... the difference is that this is direct measurement while the others are more ambiguous. If such a 2-year peak was captured in ice, and then leaked into the adjoining 50 years of ice, then such a peak is lost.
Mocking the God of War doesn't seem like a good way to start any plan.
Just the thing for an election.