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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years!
All locked up and nowhere to go <cage@critech.com> wrote for all to
see:
>David Beorn <dbeorn@freenet.vcu.edu> wrote:
>>I never said that - all I said was that it was not significant compared to
>>the natural sources (you even quoted my statement
>Requote:
>>> : Exactly - human CO2 is basically insignificant compared to what nature
>>> : produces.
>
>David:
>
>I am absolutely certain that this assertion of yours is dead wrong, unless
>you are nit-picking in a Nudds-like fashion about gross and net emissions.
>You have said this several times, and now is the time to put the issue to
>rest one way or the other.
>
>If you are claiming that net natural volcanic emissions plus the net of
>respiration minus photosynthesis is so great as to make the contribution
>from human activities insignificant, please, post figures. No one but you
>appears to take this seriously. If you would like the rest of the world
>to take it seriously, you will have to produce more than assertions.
I think what he is referring to is total greenhouse gas absorption.
CO2 is not the major greenhouse gas. If memory serves water vapor
accounts for some 90-96% of IR atmospheric absorption, leaving the
rest for methane, CO2 and a couple of others. Most of that water
vapor is evaporation from the oceans, by the way. Thus, the human
contribution to the total of greenhouse gases is very small.
Regards, Harold
----
"I do have tremendous regard for Dole as a person and a
public official."
-- Conn. Sen. Joe Lieberman (U.S. News & World
Report, 3/25/96)
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