Just one more nail in the coffin, for all the good knowing exactly what's happening will do.
I think these findings that the planet's natural CO2 removal processes are hopelessly inadequate to clean up our mess were fairly well suspected. Now we know.
The global warming bill passed several months ago by Boxer's committee (with every Repub voting against) is not adequate to solve the problem, by every informed person's admission.
Posted by euzoius at April 29, 2008 08:18 PMThe public is skeptical.
So were the Jews who were led the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Posted by phidipides at April 29, 2008 11:08 PMmuck,
your uid is appropriate.
Posted by Turkana at April 29, 2008 11:46 PM"The public is skeptical."
On global warming...yes.
On voting for Bush twice...no.
0 for 2. Bring on the extinction.
Are republicans a separate species?
The "public's" view on the reality of a scientific phenomenon is highly relevant.
The wonders of the Conservative Noise Machine....
Posted by euzoius at April 30, 2008 05:29 AMI'll die laughing, Tiki Al. O for 2.
Posted by gtash at April 30, 2008 10:36 AMturkana,
thanks for posting this.
i read it this morning and have been thinking about it all day, discussing it this evening with my wife.
i suppose one could summarize by saying that "acid rain" rules on this little space ship.
carbonic acid (i presume) falls with rain or forms in the ground, helps wind and rain erode rock, and carbon is, thereby, taken to be stored in the ocean.
so elegant, so simple, so obvious; what a beautiful law of nature.
we have lost eight precious years to search for a non-carbon energy source that will work for our economy and our planet.
biofuels simply won't do the job and are more harmful than petro.
the u. s. needs to gets its science and technology house back together after the bush admin's misuse and neglect,
and focus on non-carbon fuels - solar is my choice no matter how "impossible" the wise men say that is.
as for the central importance of science in our society, listen to john kennedy's first inaugural address, the part about science.
that's a leader.
that's an intellect.
we DESPERATELY need now an leader with that intellect,
that's why i think hillary clinton should be president.
we absolutley can't afford any more science-challenged, self-centered egotist as president.
Posted by orionATL at April 30, 2008 07:10 PM