Re: Burning Salt Water


"Sam Rouse" <nospamfun@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <Okjci.3693$s8.394@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mike Rieves" <mriev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Jon Fairbairn" <jon.fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Brian Running <brunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hold on a minute, there, cowboy. How 'bout making a
comparison in meaningful terms? Such as consumption per
capita, or per unit of GNP? How 'bout looking at
environmental laws, stewardship of the ecosystem and the
actual condition of the environment? How does China look,
then? And how does the US look, then?

Why? The earth can naturally sequester only a certain amount
of CO2 per unit time for given environmental conditions.
Release more CO2 than that and the amount of CO2 in the
atmosphere will go up. It doesn't matter who produces it,
it's the absolute amount that matters. If everybody in the
UK gave up cars, turned off the heating and huddled round
tiny biomass fires to keep our fingers warm, the proportion
of CO2 in the atmosphere would still go up unless everybody
else did something too. I'm not sure of the figures, but
even if everybody except the USA switched to non-fossil
energy, the USA could still eventually push the entire
planet into thermal runaway by growing at the present rate.

Could we have a little objectivity, please?

Is that what's needed? Note that this CO2 problem isn't an
issue for any westerner alive today; there might be some
minor inconvenience (a few more hurricanes maybe, but mostly
where they happen now anyway, some inundation of low-lying
islands, but they're mostly not in the west etc), but we'll
all be dead of old age before the trouble really starts.


Only if we die in the next twenty to thirty years.... But of course,
that
asteroid is going to hit earth either on April 13, 2029 or on April 13,
2035, so it may be a moot point. :-)

Don't forget The Rapture.

How could anyone forget that, it was Blondie's best song. :-)


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