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Off topic really, just a point about wikipedia, that my step daughter has told me.
She is currently half way through a three year nurse training. Any research she may do for course work, all students are banned from using wikipedia as it is too unreliable for correct information.Quotes in context only please.0 -
Off topic really, just a point about wikipedia, that my step daughter has told me.
She is currently half way through a three year nurse training. Any research she may do for course work, all students are banned from using wikipedia as it is too unreliable for correct information.
Are they also banned from using the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stmSays James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
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On this very site I have mentioned that wikipedia gives totally wrong information about passport validity to visit the USA - even though there is a link on the wikipedia page which refers you to an International treaty which gives the correct info !
Did you change the information so it was correct. That's the whole point of Wikipedia.
If you didn't but came here to moan about it, shame on you.0 -
duncanporter wrote: »Did you change the information so it was correct. That's the whole point of Wikipedia.
If you didn't but came here to moan about it, shame on you.
No, I was waiting to for someone to make that point - and that took 6 months ! :rolleyes:0 -
Planting trees and growing crops/plants in general does not always result in permanently trapping carbon. In fact, I doubt it will in the huge majority of cases. Fossil fuels were formed under special conditions similar to peat bogs, where dead plant materials did not fully decay before being buried, thus the carbon in them did not all turn back in to CO2. In the prehistoric forests this environment was abundant, but it isn't now. We have very few peat bogs around the world, and they're not being well looked after either.
In the absense of this type of environment (which is the vast majority of the planet now), most plants will collect carbon while growing, hold on to it when mature and eventually when they die release all of it again because they decay. This is far too short-term to make a significant impact. Even a tree that lives 80+ years will not be long enough. The carbon we're emitting from fossil fuels had been trapped for millions of years. With so little carbon being sequestered around the world, it seems that any carbon we release today is going to be free in the environment for a long time.
This strongly contradicts the suggestion we can somehow clean it up. I don't believe we can.
Anyway, I'm quite convinced there is some truth in global warming caused by carbon emissions. But even ignoring that, we still don't have an endless supply of fossil fuels and they cause many other well documented environmental problems. The amount of pollution being dumped in to the environment from fossil fuel extraction, processing and consumption is huge. It would be foolish to ignore the possibility of climate change when the potential danagers are huge, and entirely mad to continue creating so much pollution when we know how bad it is for the environment.
I've heard compelling debates for and against man made climate change, but nothing compelling about the benefits of continuing to use more and more fossil fuels.0 -
Its 2008 now, last year will go down as The Global Warming debate, most people IMO don't believe in man made Global Warming. The only made made thing about it, is the myth. The news is old hat, a prime example of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
This year will be about COPING with natural climate change. There is not one thing anyone can do to alter it, you just have to roll with it and cope.
If anyone fancies handing over their hard earned cash to some 'porta-cabin company' just to ease their conscience, thats their bag.[SIZE=-1]
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Its 2008 now, last year will go down as The Global Warming debate, most people IMO don't believe in man made Global Warming. The only made made thing about it, is the myth. The news is old hat, a prime example of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.
This year will be about COPING with natural climate change. There is not one thing anyone can do to alter it, you just have to roll with it and cope.
If anyone fancies handing over their hard earned cash to some 'porta-cabin company' just to ease their conscience, thats their bag.[SIZE=-1]
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Out of interest why do you suggest the beliefs of anyone who is not an expert in climate science should matter?Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
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geordie_joe wrote: »Why shouldn't they matter?
Because they can't possibly hope to understand it.Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
Beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl0 -
Because they can't possibly hope to understand it.
Why not? Are you suggesting anyone who doesn't call them selves an expert can't possibly understand the subject?
You don't have to be an expert to find out information on a subject and make up your own mind!
Of all the lame excuses the "global warming" brigade have come out with, this has got to be the lowest!0
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