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Originally Posted by Seaver
Actually no one talks about it but Plankton are many, many times greater more responsible for CO2 fixation than the rain forest.
http://www.gdrc.org/oceans/fsheet-02.html
Not that I'm all for cutting it down, don't get me wrong, but once again I see a nature will balance aspect to which these scaremongers completely ignore anything which doesn't go their way. Increased temperatures will increase enormously the amount of water fertile to plankton, which will in turn enormously increase the carbon fixation rate. |
I haven't had time to really sit down and sift through this thread in the last couple of days, but 'they' always forget the oceans here.
This is where the scare tactics, 'fear not facts' come into play.
These are the same type who said that cutting down rain forest would get rid of the worlds oxygen not long ago.
The rain forest could be utterly destroyed and not much would change, in 02 or in C02, as you said its mostly the oceans.
But this does cut to the heart of the environmentalists who support this kind of thing but are not just useful idiots like our boat climbers from another thread. They figure that you can't get stupid joe six pack to care about bio-diversity. He might not care that a species of frog is about to go extinct or the like, so lets scare him into supporting the cause. It doesn't matter if its honest or not.
The problem, besides being a liar, is that Joe Six pack might be uneducated but hes not completely stupid. Sooner or later the lie is discovered, and nothing changes long term.