Canada Must Adapt to Climate Impact on Forests

April 2, 2008

  • April 2, 2008 at 1:40 am
    Rosie says:
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    but sadly, they wouldn’t listen :(

  • April 2, 2008 at 1:48 am
    Chilly says:
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    “Carbon dioxide is 0.000383 of our atmosphere by volume (0.038 percent),” according to meteorologist Joseph D’Alea, the first director of meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chief of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecast.

    “Only 2.75 percent of atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic in origin. The amount we emit is said to be up from 1 percent a decade ago. “We are responsible for just 0.001 percent of this atmosphere. If the atmosphere was a 100-story building, our anthropogenic CO2 contribution today would be equivalent to the linoleum on the first floor.”

    Former Harvard physicist Lubos Motl added that those promoting the fear of man-made climate changes are “playing the children’s game to scare each other.”
    “By the end of the (CO2) doubling, i.e. 560 ppm (parts per million) expected slightly before (the year) 2100 — assuming a business-as-usual continued growth of CO2 that has been linear for some time — Schwartz and others would expect 0.4 C of extra warming only — a typical fluctuation that occurs within four months and certainly nothing that the politicians should pay attention to,” Motl explained.

    Joel Schwartz, of the American Enterprise Institute, said, “there’s hardly any additional warming ‘in the pipeline’ from previous greenhouse gas emissions. This is in contrast to the IPCC, which predicts that the Earth’s average temperature will rise an additional 0.6 degrees C during the 21st Century even if greenhouse gas concentrations stopped increasing,” he added.

    http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Technology/index.php?showtopic=2050

    http://www.climatecooling.org/#Fact

  • April 2, 2008 at 1:51 am
    Baxtor says:
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    No matter how hard we try to change the world, the world will always take care of itself. If man is the culprit for changes to the weather/earth, the earth will more than likely limit man’s effect. Meaning, if warm weather increases tree eating insects, then whatever eats these insects will also increase and so on. Until somethings gives. Being land destroyed by animals which in turn will eventually limit food supply, which in turn will limit the number of people on this planet. And then it will start all over again. The trees will grow, the weather will cool, the streams will be cleaner, etc. If we think we can stop it, we need to think again. There are way to many people on this planet and unfortunately we don’t all think the same, so there is no way we can stop all the pollution and global warming. Nature can and it will. Hold on for a wild ride.

  • April 2, 2008 at 1:57 am
    Al says:
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    “There are way to many people on this planet…”

    Wow.

    1. What is the optimum population?

    2. What percentage of habitable land is now occupied?

    3. Why are some very densely populated places like Hong Kong prosperous, and others like Calcutta not so prosperous?

  • April 2, 2008 at 2:47 am
    Rosie says:
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    What ended the last Ice Age? Ronald Reagan. The old bag was using hair spray. LOL

  • April 2, 2008 at 3:10 am
    Gill Fin says:
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    me mowing the grass. If nature always wins will I lose? Does nature want me mowing the lawn or not? Maybe what the cheeseheads are contemplating is forest management, whereby forest fires are allowable to an extent for insect control, and in an effort to control the amount of fuel on the forest floor, but with roads and fire breaks inhabited areas are somewhat protected. Now back to the lawn. Lets say that a dog, any dog, leaves a reminder on my lawn that I can a) step in or b) chuck into the neighbors yard or c) shovel and put in the yard waste bin. What does nature, the inevitable winner, want me to do? Does nature have any sense of humor? Will nature frown on my neighbor if I chuck it in his yard, or will nature frown on me? Whats this article about again?

  • April 2, 2008 at 4:48 am
    MARK says:
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    THE WEATHER IS CHANGING NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. THERE ARE TO MANY PEOPLE, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. WE ALL NEED TO BE SELLING MORE POLICIES… NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.



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