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At issue; global warming. We are being told it's caused by CO2. This is simply untrue. Atmospheric CO2 is a result of a warmer climate.(it is NOT a climate driver!) Ice cores tell us that in the past earth has had 10-20 times as much carbon dioxide and still gone into a cooling trend. Dd the ice ages end because mammoths drove suvs? The US at several times was tropical and had vast inland seas.BEFORE PEOPLE! One strong possibility is deforestation (rainforests). Think about how much cooler the woods is on a summer day versus a parking lot. Also remember trees remove CO2. If it takes 10 trees 1 day to remove X CO2, how long for 1 tree?Rainforests provide 25 % of the earths oxygen. Forests are being slashed and burned at incomprehensible rates.(110 acres per minute) Imagine 10 Montanas being scorched to dirt EACH YEAR.Not to mention animals and plants,etc. Yet we are being told it's our CO2 that is causing global warming . Who's making the money? Why is the deforestation not headline n

2007-03-21 20:46:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment

There are more important issues than CO2. One is Di HydroMonoxide. This chemical is so widely used, every person comes in contact with it every day. Its in so many common things that we don't realize - food, homes, work, beverages, schools. Yet if a person were totally immersed in it for longer than 8 minutes,(maybe as few as 1) there is a 0% survival rate. Nobody would live.And yet we hear nothing in the news about DiHydroMonoxide.Thats what we need to worry about( among other things.) But you don't have to believe me. All this information is public. But we are so easily led and manipulated. Put "Dr" in front of someones name and he's telling the truth. We will believe anything if it's presented right. Don't believe me? I may have just done it to you! DiHydroMonoxide ? It's water. Please,Think. We're not sheep. and while you're at it, Google "rainforest destruction". That's some shocking stuff. Let's get Gore on that one.Quick.

2007-03-21 20:58:12 · update #1

I am not saying that the planet is not in a warming trend. There have been warming and cooling trends forever. I am saying that all the facts are not being disclosed , and that the Global Warming /CO2 issue has become a circus which is preaching misleading data and flat out untruths. There is a lot of money being spent which would better serve the environment if used for real issues without any political adgendas involved.

2007-03-22 03:07:49 · update #2

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hard to figure out the question but i have always said that deforrestation is the main cause for climate change and ecologists and scientists who work for politicians ,get paid by these politicians and they have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many peoples incomes,and upsets profit margins,so most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.

part of my answer on climate change

DEFORESTATION

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's
clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years
the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.
TV put out a series of documentaries
there are campaigns in the News papers
and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day
more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees
it is an impossible situation
as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue

ON THE GROUND
go to the countries on the equator ,check what has happened in history
and listen to what is going on in the many disaster areas on this planet today,(and there are more than ever each year )
: i have seen lands that have been turned from jungle into desserts by people in a matter of a couple of years ,because of the slash and burn method used by settlers and expanding agriculture,and i have seen rivers dry up because of deforrestation in many places in Africa and Mexico ,

i live now by the side of a river in Mexico where,in 30 years 5 species of fish have become exstinct .
and part of the year the river is dry this is for longer every year because of over use of water by agriculture and as a result of deforrestation.

there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

2007-03-22 19:12:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Destruction of forests is really really horrid. Depends on your value system right? The physics is another matter. Replacement of forest with grassland or crops actually reduces warming. Forests are darker and absorb more light that then becomes heat. The heat is dissipated by transpiration of enourmous masses of water. Each tonne of sequestered CO2 takes 10 000 tonnes of water, both are greenhouse gasses. Though water leaves the atmosphere quickly and CO2 persists for up to 100 years; there is enough water to more than compensate for the CO2 removed. Mature forests do not sequester net amounts of CO2 and likewise they do not produce net amounts of O2. Only young actively growing forests do either. Unfortunately mature forests still need to be cooled. Oxygen levels are maintained within a narrow range, more would cause spontaneous combustion on hot days; less and fires could not burn. The same process affects CO2. O2 continually enters and leaves the air, most returns via algae in the oceans which are very sensitive to increases in CO2. If the Earth has lungs they are in the Oceans.
Sure the amount of CO2 that can remain in the atmosphere is limited by the simple fact that it is washed out by rain and sequestered by algae and, given enough water, terrestrial vegetation. Less than 50 years production of CO2 can be in the air at any one time, again simple physics and chemistry. The higher the CO2 level the faster it is removed. Naturally it is prudent to slow the rate of CO2 production, but lets not get carried away.
If you love rainforest by all means protest its destruction but don't tell our kids that the planet will die or whatever. The suicide of one more youth is not worth it. Who makes the money? Tim Flannery makes $200 000 a week as an after dinner speaker. To Al Gore that is chicken feed, there has always been big money in the Environment and they are not selling anything that anyone can use.

2007-03-22 00:32:48 · answer #2 · answered by cold d 1 · 0 0

I agree with you and disagree with you at the same time. Everyone knows that global warming is also dependent on solar fluctuations. And the argument is not that CO is doing it alone but that it's rapidly speeding up the natural process of renewal. At least that's how I understand it to be. You're right though deforestation is also a major cause to it. And although gas emission is another source not enough emphasis is put on deforestation. I think this is because even though the fuel industry is alot bigger with more lobbyists. Limiting deforestation is a problem because there are not many other ways to make paper. And other products are dependent on trees while cars can be dependant on other things.


lol DiHydroMonoxide yes people you should be very afriad of this. It has even been known to kill whole villages due to overdoses.

2007-03-21 21:01:29 · answer #3 · answered by Beaverscanttalk 4 · 0 0

Mis - informed.
The ice ages happened as a result of a meteor that caused enough dust in the atmosphere to block the light (and heat) from the sun.

It is true that there have been higher levels of CO2 at times, but these times were very hot, and inhospitable to human-like life.

Deforestation and CO2 levels are closely linked. The problem is many sided, and to solve it, we must stop using so much of the planet - oil, trees, everything.

We need to plant trees, use less trees, use less energy.

Incidentally, deforestation is in the news all of the time, it just depends where you get your news.

We get American news on our tv, and it is rather unsettling how controlled your news is...

2007-03-21 20:53:45 · answer #4 · answered by Loulabelle 4 · 1 1

I'm in agreement with you. The deforestation is definitely making an impact. Unfortunately, the likes of Al Gore are stealing the headlines away from the real reasons, and are doing so for political gains, not for the betterment of the world.

2007-03-21 20:51:02 · answer #5 · answered by C J 6 · 0 0

If the climate didn't change in the past we would all be monkeys running around trying to avoid being eaten by a t-rex.

2007-03-21 21:16:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You mentioned he rose into the sky and became a god. The Bible did not. The Bible mentioned He arose because of the fact the Son of God and ascended to heaven. Jesus is spoken of many cases interior the Bible and, via a lot of human beings. And He has many witnesses. the recent testomony is a of entirety of His foreshadowing interior the previous testomony. The previous testomony - shadow of issues to return. the recent testomony - substance it fairly is Christ. And, while some thing isn't reported many times that is often because of the fact there is little might desire to reiterate what has already been properly accepted. a million + a million = 2. See how that works?

2016-10-19 08:00:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

This is indeed a very valid question, and it relates to many issues, not just ecology and human practices. Pls, though allow me to substitute 'money' with 'power/control'.

2007-03-21 20:58:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The truth is most people are mindless lazy robots that only really care about what effects their little bubble of illusion they surround themselves with!

2007-03-21 21:19:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

*sigh* With less trees there is more carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide traps heat. When heat is trapped, temperatures rise- thus global warming.

2007-03-21 21:02:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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