Re: Off Topic: NMD/Environment was: (Re: Ada and the NMD)

["Jeff Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>]

"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:46:47 GMT, Darren New wrote:
>
> This means that you will soon run out of CO2 in your atmosphere over
> there. Where did you read this? Rememember all living animals/humans,
> cars, coal/gas power plants, etc... produce CO2. If all this is used by
> the plants in USA it means that if you tomorrow stopped emmitting CO2
> then all your plants/woods would start dying. I think not.
>


Umm..No.. We do not have our own atmosphere over here. There is a large
quantity of CO2 in
the air for plants to draw on even if we stopped adding new CO2 plus there
is plenty of
CO2 still being created by decaying material and Europe. The North American
Continent has
been reforesting faster than anyplace else in the world.

See  http://www.hooverdigest.org/011/huber.html
search for the word sink in the document.

Note this is not the only source of this data but it was the first I found.

Again, if the reduction of gases is so important than other countries should
just go ahead an
do it. We have been told that this sort of thing does not negatively impact
the economy so
what do you have to lose?


Just to bring things back a little closer to a the purpose of this group...I
suspect most
of the climate models that are predicting global warming effects are written
in C (with some
FORTRAN in the mix).. It will be great when we find out that the whole thing
was caused by running
of the end of some array :)