Re: Jared Diamond's new book

From: Dylan Sung (dylanwhs.tsktsktsk_at_pacific.net.hk)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:51:41 -0000

"I.E_Johansson" <inger_e.johansson@telia.com> wrote in message
news:92WTd.18145$d5.143012@newsb.telia.net...
>
> "Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> skrev i meddelandet
> news:njcv11pjhvar5sbjc40bfrlb9en4eopq8u@4ax.com...
>> Having said the, mankind is spewing out all kinds of materials into
>> the atmosphere which are better curbed. We are lucky so far that the
>> warming effect of excess CO2 seems to be balanced by the cooling
>> effect of the clouds induced by manmade aerosols.
>
> and that the impact of too much metan-gase as it were in the 'old' days
> when
> hugh amount of kettles were kept on farms into 20th century at same time
> as
> the metan-leakage from growing areas filled with rice-plants infected the
> higher layers of the atmosphere....
>

You do mean cattle don't you? It's probably peanuts compared to the amounts
of gas hydrate or methane hydrate there is in the sea bottom, and if it ever
gets released...

Dyl.