It's Bloody Cold Here - Is Global Warming All Over?

andykn

prosaver wrote: »

In 1985, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey found a giant hole in the ozone layer of Earth's atmosphere over the South Pole. This discovery prompted a largely successful international effort to ban CFCs, the chemicals largely responsible for man-made thinning of the ozone layer.
Unfortunately, a new analysis from Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) suggests that stopping ozone depletion may actually increase global warming and speed up sea level rise. This discovery pits two important environmental missions against each other, while highlighting the complexity of our effect on the planet. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

It certainly is complex. Which makes it all the more foolish to think we can double the amount of CO2 with no ill effects.

neverdespairgirl

Leaving climate change aside, it's still bloody cold! I played a couple of games of netball tonight. <shiver>

prosaver

andykn wrote: »

It certainly is complex. Which makes it all the more foolish to think we can double the amount of CO2 with no ill effects.

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i pity the fool

prosaver

andykn wrote: »

The thing is, Dr Phil Jones, Michael Mann and the rest all had jobs long before this was an issue and would all keep their jobs if the perfect CO2 absorption machine were discovered tomorrow.

they have...

The possibility that algae could be used to capture carbon dioxide from the air is changing the negative reputation of these organisms, which are often seen as a plague caused by excessive fertilizer runoff. Until very recently, the proliferation of algae was interpreted as an undesirable consequence of the overuse of agro-chemicals, which has caused skin irritation in humans and the death of aquatic fauna from lack of oxygen.
But algae's potential for absorbing one of the principal greenhouse gases could be crucial for averting environmental catastrophes. Like terrestrial plants, the algae consume carbon during photosynthesis. "We took algae from the ocean we put it in plastic containers in greenhouses, where we fed it with carbon dioxide produced by conventional electric generators," said Laurenz Thomsen, a bio-geologist from Jacobs University in the northern German city of Bremen. "Exposed to solar light, the algae transform the carbon dioxide into biomass that can later be used as biodiesel, whose combustion doesn't emit greenhouse gases," he added. The Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Project is coordinated by Thomsen, with cooperation from the Bremen polytechnic university, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine Research and several companies, including the European electricity supplier E.ON. Thomsen has dubbed the small greenhouse "Algenreactor." It is set up at Jacobs University, where the algae transform carbon dioxide into organic fuel. The project is operating at the experimental phase, producing just a half-liter of biofuel.

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polka_purpura

It's Bloody Cold Here - Is Global Warming All Ove...

It could always start again in the spring.

This is the little-endians and big-endians fighting over the curates egg.

If there is money in being green why not just be green and make, or save, money?

Waste less, spend less. Of course taxes will go up as a proportion of a purchase but they will do so anyway with rising oil prices.

Besides does it not make sense that taxes are proportionate to the sustainability of a resource and reinvested in efficiency, recycling, reuse and cleaner alternatives?

ILW

Foot of snow here now.

aardvaak

Global warming is a load of rubbish just as excuse to tax us more!

andykn

aardvaak wrote: »

Global warming is a load of rubbish just as excuse to tax us more!

Yes, because the global economic collapse and consequent record UK deficit isn't a good enough reason to raise taxes and we were hardly taxed at all on petrol before, were we?

LilacPixie

We are expecting 8 inches overnight.... I'm sure there is a joke in there someplace

Morglin

ILW wrote: »

Just wondering.

Did it ever arrive, other than as an excuse to tax us more?

I'm buried under snow here lol

If global warming exists, then I wish they'd send it my way. :whistle:

Lin