How much misinformation can you squeeze into one paragraph?
We are already experiencing the effects of global warming that scientific studies have been predicting for several decades. The most threatening is the effect that it is having on the oceans, which cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface. The oceans are absorbing one million tons of carbon dioxide per hour from the atmosphere — fully one third of the CO2 emission from our burning of fossil fuels, which has raised the acidity of the oceans at an unprecedented rate. This, coupled with the rise in ocean temperature, has resulted in a 40 percent decline in phytoplankton populations since 1950, which has serious implications. Phytoplankton are the foundation on which the entire marine food chain is dependent. A healthy phytoplankton population captures huge amounts of CO2 and puts back into the atmosphere fully as much oxygen as is generated by all of the earth’s land plants. And a decrease in phytoplankton means more CO2 in both the atmosphere and the ocean, increasing temperatures in both and acidity in the ocean, still further reducing phytoplankton — a vicious cycle. Global warming is also the cause of rising ocean levels. Thousands of cubic miles of ice caps and glaciers are melting and flowing into the ocean, and the ocean itself is swelling due to expansion as the water warms.
They have new drugs to control this problem. If not one of the new drugs he should talk to his doctor because his current medication is to much. It is definitely a drug problem and now they have tests that can find the extent of his delusions / hallucinations. There are Neurologists that specialize in just this condition.
I think the author has been drinking too much of the water coming down from Aspen. The Roaring Fork use to be pristine, but not so anymore. Too much Kool Aid in the water.
If the gentleman writing the article would take a few minutes to look at the data, he might tone down his rhetoric.
I hate those sites that one has to create a login ID and password to comment. Have done it once or twice, but then forget the password. I’m sure they do that so the DON’T get a lot of comments.
And as far as this columnist goes, I might lay odds that his eyes are brown . . ! 🙂 . . ooooh, that wasn’t nice, I apologize . . .
. . . though, he might be able to start his own plant fertilizer business with what he says . . .
I’m just wondering when fuels are burnt they produce more water vapour then CO2, if anything is going to be warming it would be the water vapour from cars since the greenhouse effect would be much more, think how much water vapour has been liberated. Thing is water vapour just goes into the ocean and makes the sea level rise a mm, guess that’s just whats happening
SP:
Nobody mentions the waste heat coming from all the internal combustion engines and all the steam energy plants. Just the increased number of warm blooded animals must be introducing an extreme amount of heat into the system.
Of course all that probably has the same effect as a drop of water in a swimming pool just like human released CO2!
Well this is a fine ‘How do you do’. I can’t find a single realtor in Antarctica. Another couple weeks, and there won’t be any way to cross the boiling acid to build my condo.
Apparently this nutter is ” a resident of Glenwood Springs”.
I assume this is some sort of mental institue?
This is outrageous. A scientist saying these things, most of which, while largely true, are exaggerations. or at least given with no time frame.
OK Steve, you have me on this. this guy should be kicked out of his university and never be allowed to publish again.
What’s this? he isn’t a scientist? just some guy?
nevermind.