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To: js1138

Evolution doesn't drive climate change.


749 posted on 04/22/2006 8:33:47 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

What makes you think that's where I was going?


764 posted on 04/22/2006 3:02:34 PM PDT by js1138 (somewhere, some time ago, something happened, but whatever it was that happened wasn't evolution)
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To: metmom
Evolution doesn't drive climate change.

Indirectly it does. Much (if not most) of the greenhouse gasses are produced by rotting trees (rotting due to bacteria) that were flooded by dams created by beavers.

787 posted on 04/22/2006 4:43:13 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: metmom; js1138
Evolution doesn't drive climate change.

well, it could, and seems to have done so dramatically in the distant past - the rise of photosynthetic organisms appears to have radically altered the atmosphere's chemical composition by liberating molecular oxygen and binding carbon into biomass. These alterations certainly could (and apparently did) contribute to massive climate shifting.

Additionally, forests are rain-engines. No forests, no land-based rain-engines. When trees came to be and formed forests *poof!* we had land-based rain-engines. Does this not qualify as climate change driven by evolution?

1,096 posted on 04/24/2006 5:10:09 PM PDT by King Prout (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT.)
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