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OK. I think it is time to put in a couple cents worth. How many of you 
remember the Exxon Valdiz?  You know, the oil tanker that leaked... badly... 
up in Alaska?  Do you also remember how the environmentalists bewailed the 
fate of the bay... how life would be affected for decades, how the pollution 
from the oil would be a wildlife disaster for generations to come?

Turns out not to be the case. It's actually pretty much back to where it 
was... pristine. Wildlife is there, living nicely...

The earth is pretty darn good at cleaning itself up.

Now, this isn't to say we can't do a better job of stewardship. We can, and 
should. However, when Mount Pinotubo (sic) spews forth more greenhouse gases 
in a single eruption than mankind has in his entire history, when Mars shows 
recent evidence of global warming (for which my SUV certainly shares no 
responsibility), I begin to seriously think that this huge system in which we 
live, the earth, is far more capable of regulating itself than our petty 
little efforts can effect, one way or the other.



Dr. Raymond Zentz
 
It is better to die a free man, than to live, a slave.



-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Brittell <gabrittell AT gmail.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 12:26 pm
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Climate-Gate


On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> I too have searched for it unsuccessfully.  My mom saw it on a Public
 TV type program, and I heard mention of it on a radio show (that is not
 biased towards one party or the other, and is often exposes both main
 party's nonsense.)

 Meanwhile,  here's another absurdity to ponder...Is Carbon Dioxide
 Pollution?
 "Let’s take Barack Obama’s absurd assertion, that carbon dioxide is a
 dangerous pollutant, one step further. By using Obama’s "logic," life itself
 is built upon pollution. It makes me wonder, once again, if our new
 President is smarter than a fifth grader. For if one is familiar with
 photosynthesis– and most fifth graders are – it is a process of converting
 light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of sugar. Plants
 only need light energy, carbon dioxide and water to make the aforementioned
 sugar. Photosynthesis, which cannot take place without carbon dioxide,
 occurs in plants (and a few bacteria) and is responsible for feeding nearly
 all life on Earth. But let’s not stop there. Another vital function
 photosynthesis performs pertains to generating the very oxygen which
 oxygen-breathing animals require for survival. So let’s get this straight
 Mr. Obama, you believe the life-giving process of photosynthesis is built
 upon
  pollution? If this is your firm conviction, then you have left me
 wondering if enough oxygen is making it to your brain. Yet what I do know
 now is that the gospel, according to Barack Obama, avows that life itself is
 dependent upon pollution. How utterly surreal."

 http://www.hyperinflation.net/essays/englund56.html

 Obama wants to reduce CO2 by 1/6th over the next 10 years.  Hmmmm  Might
 have to construct a still next to the garden in order to make sure the
 veggies get enough CO2 to produce food for me to eat.

And you don't think it important to consider that as much benefit a certain
ritical, optimal amount of carbon dioxide is to life on earth, as has been
aintained now for many thousands of years, can quickly be exceeded, too
uch of a good thing becoming deleterious?  There has occured several times
n ancient earth history, when this level in the atmosphere has been
xceeded, leading to almost total extinction of all species, though never as
uickly as has burning all these hydrocarbons has done the past one hundred
ears.  I think you best be sure you know what you are talking about before
ou wage such a polarizing, emotional campaign. There is something of
reater moment at hand than any tea party, dear soul.
Even the massive and sudden growth of plant life that is now occurring in
any areas, particularly in the northern hemisphere,cannot be seen without
larm, knowing well the process of desertification. Drained, nutriment
epleted soils can produce only so much vegetation.  Now is in fact a good
ime to harvest and store the bounty brought on by the present high CO2
evels.  When the changing climate brings the floods, droughts, fires,
nsects and disease, along with the great social and political disruptions
nd displacements, and the plants no longer can support their extreme
rowth, look out humanity.
he shjift comes almost overnight, earth clock time, in some places earlier
han others.
The lands surrounding much of the dry country you and others on this list
ive upon was not so very long ago covered with verdant vegetation and
auna. Consider now the soils and vegetation. Dig a little deeper and pump
p the oil and dig the coal the massive decaying cover created.  Continue
ow burning it and spreading it's products on the lands, air and water,
urther eliminating the miraculous bioorganisms in the soils, and see how
oon the rest of these verdant green fields and forests stand.
No Leslie, I think Obama has some pretty knowledgable persons in his cabinet
nd as advisors who are onto the CO2 'problem' a little deeper than this,
nd are aware of what is occuring.  Whether he will listen and act, or can,
emains to be seen. The measures that truly need be taken, I am certain
yself, are way too miniscule to avoid what is already roaring down the pike
ade from our past chocies. Just enough is proffered to make it appear that
omething is being done.  Look at all the Oil Company ads glorifing their
onderful 'Green' measures. Nothing but propaganda to prevent their spigots
rom being turned off before they can drill, dig and market as much as they
an before their inevitable doom falls as it will.   Too bad, since there
re other good uses to be made of their products other than burning it.
True CO2, and Oxygen both are verv vital substances,  you have that right,
n the rright amount.  Either can kill instantly with too much or little.
lose up a car in a garage and run it a few minutes and observe what
appens.   No, don't please.  How anyone can overlook such simple, obvious
acts using such illogic is unfortuate, I think.  However things have a way
f balancing out, even without our conscious influence and will.  Pray it
ill happen in time while there is still life left on earth.  Better yet, do
hat we know and do to see as many as possible survive what obviously is
pon us. jerry

>

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