On 17 mayo, 09:50, chemist wrote:
On May 17, 2:28*am, "ozonb" wrote:



May 16 2009

Associate Professor Abigail Smith wants us to remember a fake scare based on dodgy
evidence that caused great harm, because she thinks it should make us now freak over the
latest fake scare based on dodgy evidence that will cause great harm:

"Remember Silent Spring? It was in 1962 that Rachel Carson's book alerted the world to the
problems of the insecticide DDT in the food chain. Birds of prey were particularly
vulnerable, with their eggshells becoming so thin they could no longer contain growing
embryos. The threat of springtime with no birdsong catapulted the world into a new
awareness of ecology and conservation. "

"Forty-seven years on, a new threat is looming, this time in the sea. Once again the busy
rhythm of people is causing an ecological crisis. We know that human activities,
particularly the burning of coal, oil, petrol and wood, have for the past 200 years
increased the amount of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere. ...Think about that
exhaust, puffing out the back of every car, each little bit of CO2 heading into the air,
into the sea, a little drop of poison for our planet. Each of us can make small
differences. Think about what you could do, today, to save just one plankton, just one
coral. Because a sea without shells is like springtime without birds."

Extraordinary.

Hear the birds outside?

Some people just don't learn from the past.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...007146,00.html

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a.../heraldsun/com...

Warmest Regards

Bonzo

Increasing CO2 *accelerates *plankton growth.
Cold seas have a higher CO2 and far more plankton
*than warm seas.

ok, these people have been doing a lot of noise about many imagined
dangers of extinction. They have been wrong, except some people like
Erhling that sold many millions of books. Those people who sold
millions of books were right; the tactics of scaremongering had been
very profitable. They earned millions of bucks.

Nevertheless, I am worried by the limited amount of oil and coal we
have. It is not that there is little oil and coal, but I am worried
by the "growth of consumption", well over the 2,5% a year, of those
fuels. If you check the known reserves of oil and coal, the the
present consumption of those fuels, you'll see they would soon be
exhausted. Mostly, if you take into account the rate of growth of our
consumption.

I am also worried by the growth of population. It has to stop soon
for this is not normal.
On the other hand, we will be much better in this world if we were
much less people.

I never believed this campaign about worming climate. But once I
watch the movie "Soleygreen", remember? People were awaiting for the
next batch of the biscuits Soleigreen that were scarce and they made a
lot of protests in the streets, hundreds of thousand of protesters,
and the collared them all and put all of them into into big
containers, and processed the protesters to make a new batch of
soleygreen biscuits. It was great. I never liked those ****ing
protesters.

Leopoldo