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In message , B J Foster
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On 22/11/2010 12:58 AM, Sapient Fridge wrote:
The climate is warming, that is an observation i.e. it is a fact.

0.6 degrees in a century. Please provide a representative sample of
centuries.

What would that show? Humans have never dumped this amount of CO2 in the
atmosphere before so previous centuries temperatures are not terribly
useful in predicting what is ahead.

About 220 gigatons of CO2 enters the atmosphere each year from natural
sources and about 220 gigatons leaves the atmosphere. It's in
equilibrium. The problem is that humans are adding about 26 gigatons per
year and that has nowhere to go, so it builds up.

http://www.research.noaa.gov/spotlit...jimomedal.html

Think of it this way, if you have an income of $100,000 and spend $100,000
a year then you are fine. If you spend $105,000 a year then eventually
you will become bankrupt even though the additional amount is a small
proportion of your income.

Actually even if you don't think that AGW is happening it's worth
supporting moves off fossil fuels anyway, we are past peak oil


Oh really?
You wish!


Peak Oil Postponed

July 15 2008



No need to panic about peak oil just yet:



In the Americas, proven oil reserves have increased from 170 billion barrels
to 180 billion barrels over the last two decades, according to the 2008
Statistical World Review from British Petroleum.

Peak oil is not the point where we stop finding oil and it's not even
when the reserves start dropping, it is the point where the rate of
extraction slows down.

Since your article doesn't mention the rate of extraction it does
nothing to address the issue of peak oil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

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