I know someone in Siberia who can't wait for it to get warmer, should we deny him and his kids the nice weath

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we have had for so long.

thankyou trevor, I said many years ago when Carl sagen first coined the phrase Green House effect, that that may become a good thing if perma frost is thawed My suggestion is that global governments look at how we can offset CO2 emissions by utilising the extra land for tree production I understand the problem with acidity and I am no botanist but can see mss benifit to create new places to live for refugees from places that become inhospitable if seas rise or other things that drive man out of his pleasure zone humans have always been exported by the change in the local environment I wrote to some government ministers with no reply that world governments should get into tree planting in Siberia I do not know if they absorb methane but one wonders if by products from Chinese coal fired power stations may be useful as soil improvers lets get into the real estate boom near one of those lakes

the idea f global warming is in fact amisnomer some places could get a lot colder the reason that it is colder and they cannot grow sugar is that Texas is part of a continental climate but as the warm air moves north by the equitorial conveyer it causes an increase in cold moist air to build up in the Arctic this then breaks like a dam as it becomes unstable and because cold air is denser it becomes the dominent force and finds is way right down to Texas look lad until Al Gore gets his CO2 down to my levels I'll keep living as I do god bless yer

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Siberia is one of the few places to have benfitted from global warming. In the last 5 years alone over one million square kilometres of permafrost has melted, this has produced over 1000 new lakes and a lot of potential agricultural land. The land isn't all that brilliant as it's acidic peat bog so it's potential for growing crops is limited - great for the people who have a peat burning fire. The trouble is that for every one person who benefits there are infinitely more who lose out.

Your friend probably won't have long to wait. Anyone in Siberia will tell you that temperatures these past few years have risen dramatically, more than almost anywhere on the planet. This last winter season was 8°C (14°F) warmer than normal.

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Re your added comments. Tree planting in Siberia is environmentally detrimental. Because it's cold growth is slow and stunted, the amount of CO2 the trees absorb form the atmosphere is more or less the same as the amount they store so in that respect there's no net benefit. The trees do absorb heat energy from the sun (solar radiation) which is then released back into the atmosphere as thermal radiation, this is the sort that gets trapped by greenhouse gases. If the trees are allowed to die or decompose they release all the carbon they've sequestered and through the process of methanogenesis (biomethanation) they produce a lot of methane as well.

Tree planting does work but it needs to be in the hotter parts of the world - the equatorial regions. The right tree planted here can contribute a net reduction of 30 to 50kg (66 to 110 pounds) of CO2 each year.

One of the problems with the melting Siberian permafrost is that there's an estimated 70 billion tons of methane trapped underneath the ice. As it melts the methane is released and this is much more damaging than carbon dioxide, If it was all released it would be the equivalent of 54 years worth of human emissions of carbon dioxide.

The of course there's the political issue. Would the Siberian authorities welcome climate refugees from around the world? Would these different cultures and religions want to live together? Would they even want to move that far from their original homelands?

One solution, which is something I know very little about, is permaculture. This could radically alter lands which are presently unproductive, it could turn deserts into fertile agriculture lands. Byderule is Yahoo Answers permaculture expert, he may have some more ideas.

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global warming is not what the media and al gore have made it seem.
the average global temperature has gone up 1 degree in the past 100 years and that is what global warming is. Sure that could be bad if it does up 1 degree every 100 years but it wont continue like that, the global temperature fluctuates.
Good thing todays scientists werent around when we had the ice age because they would of been going nuts when it started getting warmer.

I know global warming is a huge topic nowadays and i am present just a little information but here is one case that argues against global warming.
In Sugarland Texas (near Houston) there used to be a big sugar production plant and lots of sugar grown in that city and that region (hence the name of the city), there is no longer sugar grown in that area because it is too cold for them to have successful sugar crops.

Anyway, tell your friend in Siberia to keep his coats, cause its not getting warmer, however, I am willing to pollute all I can and release fumes from my car as much as I can in an attempt to make the global temperature warmer so that your friend can have nicer weather.

Answer 3

I belong to a Refrigerant Rights activist group called Coalition for Refrigerant Advancement and Protection (C.R.A.P.) We believe that Freon in all its variants has a right to self-determination, and should not be imprisoned in those steel tanks. How would you like it if YOU all were Chlorinated Flourocarbons and stuffed into a claustrophobic dark tank? FREE FREON NOW!!!!!!! Freon should be allowed its natural freedom in the wilds of the atmosphere!!!!


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Answer 4

A few lousy degrees when it is 30 below??

Answer 5

Questions like this are why I hate this section.

*runs away to green living*