Just last week the lack of sunspots was causing global cooling. What's a person to do when the sky is falling? ;>)
Posted on 03/10/2008 10:02:26 AM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.
Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order to prevent warming that could change precipitation patterns and dry up sources of water worldwide. Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists, from countries including the United States, Canada and Germany, are delivering a simple message: The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.
"The question is, what if we don't want the Earth to warm anymore?" asked Carnegie Institution senior scientist Ken Caldeira, co-author of a paper published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "The answer implies a much more radical change to our energy system than people are thinking about."
Emissions continue to rise... (see link for the entire article)
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Just last week the lack of sunspots was causing global cooling. What's a person to do when the sky is falling? ;>)
I hereby order everyone on this planet to stop farting. Immediately.
So, what would they have suggested 12k years ago when the last ice age was ending? Don’t breathe? Don’t fart?
This would require us to all stop breathing.
CO2 output must cease altogether, studies warn ...
Okay. Just outlaw all catalytic converters and have them removed immediately from all cars on the road.
Make their manufacture illegal.
What do they convert again?
*shakes fist*
Except for the energy used to supply Barbra Streisand’s house and John Kerry’s jet.
If we don’t all commit mass suicide soon, WE’RE DOOMED!
Everyone hold their breath, starting now...
Idiocy! Absolute idiocy!..............
Strange that some in the Global Warming community are so out of touch with their partners that they don’t know the argument has shifted back to air pollution. GW is soooo over.
"CO2 output must cease."
This stuff has the makings of a very brilliant Monty Python skit.
As the enviro-whackos are fond of saying - that would be a Good Thing even if the theories are proven wrong. Thanks for doing this.
These people are so FOS, so consumed by their agenda that they think folks will just keep gobbling up this stuff.
Shhhh, don’t tell this to the residents of Columbus, OH!
I wonder what he majored in? Just asking.
OK, I just searched him. he has a MASSIVE amount of publications. All in fields that relate to getting Ecology/Climate funding. He's a Pro, putting it politely.
“CO2 output must cease altogether, studies warn”
So every living on the planet needs to die?
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