thekafer
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 04:26 AM |
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The locost of the future
I hope this a more reasonable size pic..
Fletch,
 
Rescued attachment speedtrap2.JPG
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy...
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 03:16 PM |
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Current scientific thinking amongst those that actually Do know these things, is that although global wafrming is happening it is actually staving off
an ice age which is trying to get a foot hold...
Oh and by the way pollution from cars has NOTHING to do with global warming - Standard misconception!
And while I am on the subject - The rain forests are NOT the lungs of the planet... thwe net output of the amazonian rain forest is ZERO... The eco
system there consumes just as much oxygen as it produces !
Ban the Gay Nuclear Whale......
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JoelP
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 03:35 PM |
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I suspect that CO2 levels are one of the things that is self regulating, everyone knows that the limiting factor in plant growth is the availability
of CO2, so a warm world with lots of CO2 will encourage plant growth to even out the levels. Then it'll lead to the ice age!
And i hate deforestation for two main reasons, one it eventually reduces biodiversity and two they only do it to make burgers for podgy americans (no
offense of course!).
but protojf is right about the rain forests and CO2, they cant be removing it otherwise they would be expanding (increase in biomass is where the
carbon goes), its just an equlibrium.
and finally cars, though they are contributing to atmospheric CO2 and others, generally i think it is the small exhaust particles that are regarded as
the main problems, esp from diesels. bad for the lungs...
i think we're in trouble anyway, we are a bit of an infestation on this planet. but as technology exsists to leave it, maybe that isn't
too important.
anyone care to place a bet on when the first colony on another planet or moon will be formed?!
ps thats what i call subverting a thread...
[Edited on 20/9/03 by JoelP]
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thekafer
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 04:30 PM |
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So thats what McDonalds puts in thier burgers!!Tropical rain forrest!!!I always thought it tasted like "bio mass".
Fletch( a podgier than most american)
[Edited on 20/9/03 by thekafer]
[Edited on 20/9/03 by thekafer]
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy...
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Peteff
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 05:53 PM |
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Methane is another problem.
It's another greenhouse gas which is on the increase due to all the cattle being reared in order to service the fast food industry. Probably due
to the fast food industry after effects as well.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Viper
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 06:00 PM |
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Isn't plancton the largest producer of oxygen on the planet?
but what that has to do with speed traps i am not quite sure
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Mix
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 06:14 PM |
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Viper
I think you will find that the operators of speed traps and plankton are both classified as 'plant life'
Do I win a prize ?
Mick
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Viper
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| posted on 20/9/03 at 06:20 PM |
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and there was me thinking the connection was single cell organisms
or is that ameba's not plankton?
or is that where all the speed trap operators come from.....Planktown???
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Peteff
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| posted on 21/9/03 at 09:01 AM |
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If plankton is the biggest producer of oxygen on the planet and whales eat plankton didn't we ought to be taking the side of the Japanese and
Norwegians in the whaling debate . How did we come to global warming anyway?
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Noodle
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| posted on 21/9/03 at 09:31 AM |
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It'a my fault Pete. I slipped in the "my kids walk to school" personal gripe.
I take full responsibility. For everything. Ever. Sorry.
Neil.
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thekafer
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| posted on 21/9/03 at 04:25 PM |
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My wife says that I am the biggest producer of methane!
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy...
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