Re: Climate Changes -Reply

Frits v/d Laan (F.vd.Laan@inter.nl.net)
Sat, 20 Dec 1997 14:55:25 +1

Bob
>
> Bill Duesing is right to come down heavily on the attitudes of the
> developed-world energy gulpers
> More confusing to me is why we are concentrating on the fossil fuel
> consumption issue at all. It seems to me that we (the world) are
> destined to consume virtually all the readily-accessible fossil fuels.
> Except for the ones that are converted into stable plastics, most will end
> up in the atmosphere as CO2. That is, cutting back our rate of emissions
> will stretch out the period of depletion of fossil fuels and, perhaps, make
> a bit more available to other economies, too, but will not result in any less
> accumulation of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
I think your wrong because the oceans have a great capacity to absorb
lots of carbon but needs time to do so.
CO2 is highly soluble in water and algae need and bind CO2.

> I am surprised to see the emphasis so strongly on the limitation of CO2
> emission from fossil fuel consumption rather than on the means to
> sequester more of the CO2. A few years ago, an agronomist made the
> claim that a one percent change in organic matter content on an acre is
> equivalent to the standing biomass on an acre of rainforest. If this is
> true, then the soil-restoring principals of the organic and permaculture
> folks may be addressing the global warming scenario a lot more
> practically than the advocates of restricted fossil fuel consumption are.
> By all means, we should strive for greater energy efficiency. Also, it is
> clearly elitist and greedy for we in the developed world to grab the black
> gold and slurp it down so the less privileged can't have it too. But, I
> don't think this will ultimately have a lot to do with the global warming
> issue.
>
> BOB
>
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