From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec3b1a84cab8fc8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-06 15:13:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Off Topic: NMD/Environment was: (Re: Ada and the NMD) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3B970152.4AC6C6E3@PublicPropertySoftware.com> <3B9795E1.54B12E70@worldnet.att.net> <9n882d$rsh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B97C5D4.2AFBAEDF@san.rr.com> <3B97EEC5.B9109D9F@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 999814428 27755 129.241.83.82 (6 Sep 2001 22:13:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:13:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12850 Date: 2001-09-06T22:13:48+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:46:47 GMT, Darren New wrote: >> > Err, do you have a cite for this? Everything I've read shows north >> > america as being a net consumer of CO2, not a producer. > >> You must be joking, right? What is it that consumes CO2 and what is it >> turned into? > > Uh, forests? And it turns into wood? Krebs cycle, anyone? Where do you > think the CO2 in petrochemicals came from in the first place? :-) no no no no if it only was that simple. > I.e., our emissions (i've read) are so relatively clean and we have > industrialized such relatively high amounts of open space that we (i.e., > north america, including all inhabitants mammilian and otherwise) are > turning CO2 into plants faster than burning plants is releasing the CO2 > back again. 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. That emmissions are dropping in the US can perhaps be because the price of petrol has increased. Preben Randhol