Comments on: So much for those carbon dioxide “sinks” http://themoderatevoice.com/15750/so-much-for-those-carbon-dioxide-sinks/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:48:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jammer http://themoderatevoice.com/15750/so-much-for-those-carbon-dioxide-sinks/comment-page-1/#comment-103127 jammer Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:06:32 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/science/environment/15750/so-much-for-those-carbon-dioxide-sinks/#comment-103127 BRAVO! Well said, needed to be said, and I have no hope of we humans doing the right thing to reverse this problem. I am afraid at this point we need to be figuring out how to live with it, if we can. BRAVO! Well said, needed to be said, and I have no hope of we humans doing the right thing to reverse this problem. I am afraid at this point we need to be figuring out how to live with it, if we can.

]]> By: Jim Satterfield http://themoderatevoice.com/15750/so-much-for-those-carbon-dioxide-sinks/comment-page-1/#comment-103124 Jim Satterfield Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:54:50 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/science/environment/15750/so-much-for-those-carbon-dioxide-sinks/#comment-103124 I always fall between amazed and amused when I hear the deniers claim that mankind is so insignificant when it comes to the planet that there is no way his activities could really make the kinds of major changes that climate models claim. Did any of them ever study chemistry or physics? Do they really not know that in a solution or mixture of gases that you can see effects when you make an addition of just the right chemical(s) or gases that only comes to parts per million? So if you pump billions and billions of tons of gases into the atmosphere at the same time you are affecting the planet's ability to adapt to it in other ways you just shouldn't be surprised if something happens. I always fall between amazed and amused when I hear the deniers claim that mankind is so insignificant when it comes to the planet that there is no way his activities could really make the kinds of major changes that climate models claim. Did any of them ever study chemistry or physics? Do they really not know that in a solution or mixture of gases that you can see effects when you make an addition of just the right chemical(s) or gases that only comes to parts per million? So if you pump billions and billions of tons of gases into the atmosphere at the same time you are affecting the planet’s ability to adapt to it in other ways you just shouldn’t be surprised if something happens.

]]> By: domajot http://themoderatevoice.com/15750/so-much-for-those-carbon-dioxide-sinks/comment-page-1/#comment-103062 domajot Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:43:23 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/science/environment/15750/so-much-for-those-carbon-dioxide-sinks/#comment-103062 It's very discouraging. The argumentation could well outlast the point when it becomes too late. The trouble with waiting for private enterprise technologies to come up with the answer is that businesses will not invest much in R&D unless they're asseured of a protit. This administration does not want to invest on priniciple, but even if the administration wete to change, the US is devoting so much to the war in Iraq, it can't really function normally in any other area. The story of Carter installing solar panels in the WH and Reagan dismantling them is very telling. To think we could have been working on this problem for decades already but haven't out of pure arrogance and false hubris. A group of scientists visiting the Arctic were talking about WHEN,, not if, the earth would no longer te able to sustain human life. They were probably being overdramatic, but is was frighening to hear them talk like that. The frightening part was not so much imagining the end as imagining the suffering that would predece it. But we just argue. It’s very discouraging. The argumentation could well outlast the point when it becomes too late.

The trouble with waiting for private enterprise technologies to come up with the answer is that businesses will not invest much in R&D unless they’re asseured of a protit. This administration does not want to invest on priniciple, but even if the administration wete to change, the US is devoting so much to the war in Iraq, it can’t really function normally in any other area.

The story of Carter installing solar panels in the WH and Reagan dismantling them is very telling.

To think we could have been working on this problem for decades already but haven’t out of pure arrogance and false hubris.

A group of scientists visiting the Arctic were talking about WHEN,, not if, the earth would no longer te able to sustain human life. They were probably being overdramatic, but is was frighening to hear them talk like that.
The frightening part was not so much imagining the end as imagining the suffering that would predece it.

But we just argue.

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