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Originally Posted by Seaver
My question is this: With increased CO2 emissions, wouldn't that in turn cause a plant growth explosion which could counter-act this? While you will point out the deforestation, I would like to point out that the ocean plankton convert vastly more CO2 to O2 than the forests of the world. Mixed with few whales/fish/etc because of environmental issues the natural predators of the sea life are diminished.
Has anyone even looked into this?
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Yes those are carbon sinks, they have been looked at, but mostly ignored. In the Kyoto protocols they were going to let countries 'trade' carbon sinks. Meaning if you were not producing a lot of CO2 but had a lot of vegitation you could 'loan' your sink 'credit' to some other country who was overproducing CO2. I forget how that was suppose to work out, and of course it wouldn't take into account increased plant growth, but the Kyoto system seemed silly, but the whole plan was stupid feelgood do nothing but pretend we are all working together legislation that even the global warming moonbats admit would have not made any impact.
As for the rest I'm not going to argue global warming with you, frankly its fruitless, most of you lack the backround to start the argument, and there is plenty of info out there if you are willing to educate yourself and not take the word of a politician.
I will leave you with this thought....
While its debatable I'll take it at face value.
2006 was the hottest summer on record since 1936.
In 1936 there were dire preditions about global warming.
Then things started to cool off and until 1980 there were dire preditions about global cooling.
Now again we have dire preditions about global warming.
And its still not as warm as it was before the little ice age durring the mideval period when Greenland was warm enough to farm.
But please, don't let history get in the way of thinking the sky is falling yet again.
Not learning from history is one of those great cliches but it applies quite aptly here. Humans always have a desire to do 'something' to fix a potential problem, but so often that something does nothing or is counter productive. Global warming is no different.