Specialized wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:57:31 -0700, Mark Hickey
wrote:

That's why I would be opposed to spending
trillions of our hard-earned dollars trying to reduce CO2 emissions,
when there's very little evidence that it's more than a very, very
minor part of the problem.

One must wonder how the emissions from a million SUV's compare to a
single volcanic eruption-St. Helen's, Pinatubo, etc..

Great example. Remember the uproar over CFCs? They were gonna
destroy the ozone 'cuz our air conditioners might leak occasionally.
Thing is, a single small volcano released many, many times more of the
compounds than mankind has ever produced. So what was our "solution"?
We replace the efficient R12 in our air conditioners with R43. Now
our cars burn more gas to keep us cool, thereby adding REAL pollutants
to the atmosphere.

We can repeat the same mistake with CO2 and spend trillions of dollars
(and cause more "real problems" than we solve) if we adopt the Kyoto
protocol.

Another parallel to the current global warming debate - some
scientists were convinced that our CFCs were depleting the ozone, and
that this was going to cause horrendous changes in our planet. We
were going to be forced to become mole people to avoid the sun.
Others pointed out the "volcano conundrum", and the fact that the hole
over the south pole was much bigger than the one over the north pole,
even though the industrial / automotive impact would have been a small
fraction of that of the northern hemisphere. Fast forward to today
and scientists have figured out that the ozone hole wasn't really
shrinking as much as they thought, and naturally shrinks and grows.

Interestingly, some propose the airborn dust from volcanic eruptions
act as a "Sunblock", reducing light that reaches the earth's surface
to be reemitted in longer wavelengths that are more readily trapped in
the "Greenhouse".
So we are back to articles of faith along party lines, that reduces
both positions to the stupid "Angels on the head of a pin"
speculation.

1: We're all gonna die and we are taking the polar bears with us.
2: Oh, Good. I can grow Super Beefsteak Tomatoes instead of Early
Girl Hybrids.
3: President Gore was robbed of his promised Birthright.
4: W, the drooling stammering lackey of Enron and the Oil and War
cartels did it all on purpose.
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Heh heh heh. Nice synopsis.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
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