Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: The green gadflies
On Jan 7, 2:20*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 1/7/10 12:17 PM, Eric Gisin wrote:
But what people don't know, say the scientists at Intellectual Ventures
labs in Bellevue, Wash., is
that the carbon dioxide level some 80 million years ago - back when our
mammalian ancestors were
evolving - was at least 1,000 parts per million. In fact, that is the
concentration of carbon
dioxide you regularly breathe if you work in a new energy-efficient
office building, for that is
the level established by the engineering group that sets standards for
heating and ventilation
systems.
* *If there weren't so many billions of people on the planet needing
* *fresh water, and 1.3 billion living at almost sea level, going up
* *to 1000 ppmv for CO2 wouldn't be such a problem.
* *If ecosystem change slowly enough, many species adapt. Fast
* *changes usually result in mass extinctions.
may you and your devolved lib-turd-retards be the first to go,
****tard.
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