Re: Global Warming is about giving your government more regulatory power and your eventual enslavment.

On Oct 21, 10:41 am, Chris L Peterson <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:38:45 -0700 (PDT), "M104gal...@xxxxxxxxx"

<M104gal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Exactly how was man causing global warming in the 1850ties? Millions
of cars running around?

Coal was used increasingly as a fuel in Europe from about AD 1000 on.
The usage increased dramatically around the late 1700s. For the most
part, this was low grade coal by modern standards, and burned almost
always in very inefficient ways.

The rise in coal burning, followed shortly by an observed rise in
atmospheric CO2 and in global warming, represents one of the stronger
pieces of evidence that the climate is influenced by human activities.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatoryhttp://www.cloudbait.com

Interestingly, a very large part of the rise of CO2 can be attributed
to the way we grow our food now. Food production used to be solar
powered and sustainable. Not too many years ago there were 15 million
individual farms in the US, now there are only about 1 million. Most
farming is now done by large agribusinesses. Extensive uses of
hydrocarbon based fertilizer and oil for mechanized farming are
contributing a huge portion of the CO2 in the atmosphere. The use of
corn and soybeans as the staple of our food supply has replaced time
honored ways of land use such as crop rotation and leaving fields
fallow to replenish the soil fertility. Corn here in the Midwest is
not grown on traditional fertile soil any more, rather it is grown
with ancient hydrocarbons that we pump out of the ground. We are
literally eating oil in our daily food stuffs. Can we do this forever?

The petroleum cycle gets even more interesting. We make and use vast
quantities of plastics out of oil. These are used once and discarded.
Slowly but surely this stuff makes its way to the ocean, the ocean
being the lowest elevation on the planet. Large amounts of plastic
rides around in the top layer of the ocean, being slowly pulverized
into finer and finer bits, but never really degrading into its
molecular components. Oceanographers have found that these fine bits
of plastic, which resemble zoo plankton, are making up more and more
of the material constituents of the top few meters of the ocean water.
Filter feeders ingest them, small fish eat these filter feeders, end
eventually larger fish (tuna) eat these smaller fish. Then we eat the
fish. We are literally eating our own plastic waste (yum, have you had
your sushi today?).

Unca Rollo
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