The worst pollution in the world, hands down, is created in the process of acquiring (coal mining; drilling for oil & gas), transporting (oil spills; oil...
Your dogma is showing. Why must the answer always be to cut back? Never mind, I know your response. Well, that just ain't gonna happen, so you need to think...
Why is it that the word "conservation" does not appear in you vocabulary? The best way to reduce all 3 forms of pollution mentioned -- particulates and...
Most of the things you mention are designed for 'other' people. Conservation doesn't work, because the mainstream doesn't care a whit about it. Each of the...
John, your points are well-taken. Conservation requires a change of THINKING as well as acting. We have to use our intelligence to adapt and change. Compact...
... Doug, I agree that change is needed. I don't think I have as much changing to do as some others, my X boss in particular needs to change. From 1978-1979...
... is ... has ... believe ... 10% ... variation ... also ... it ... who ... what ... would ... hand ... to ... matter. ... (biological) ... change?, ... proof...
... That's not true all the time...it can happen both ways. It happened the other way in the Late Paleocene... Temperature changes FOLLOWED greenhouse gas...
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Lance Olsen
lanceolsen@...
Jan 2, 2003 2:24 am
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-book30dec30.story Los Angeles Times Looks like we've bitten the hand that feeds us By Merle Rubin ...
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Lance Olsen
lanceolsen@...
Jan 2, 2003 3:22 am
*Wildlife seeks cooler climes* <http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/2617139.stm> Hundreds of wild species are showing a consistent pattern by...
Interesting points, Lance. Maybe Adam and Eve should have eaten more fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. At one bite apiece, they may have eaten just enough to...
Overall, a pretty balanced report. It should always be remembered that there is a difference between climate change, and human-caused climate change. This...
... A tall order indeed! Can a drop of water understand the sea? ... The choice of an economic metaphor is telling. Most of us in these modern times...
... They are doing precisely that right now less than fifty miles upwind of me at Sellafield. "Spent" fule rods are dissolved in concentrated nitric acid so...
I'm glad to see that vitrification is making progress. My point about storage is simply that in glass form, the radiation won't 'leak' as it does at Hanford,...
... Thank you. You hit the nail right on the head. That's why the earth will die. Happy New Year! Nick...
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Dr. Salvador Contrera...
saconbal@...
Jan 2, 2003 8:17 pm
There is something wrong in these news. The biomass of old plantations is related to the amount of CO2 "sequestered", but is in equilibrium as its growth...
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Dr. Salvador Contrera...
saconbal@...
Jan 2, 2003 8:17 pm
Very good reference you informed us. In 1975-76, a Mexican team was defining the use of natural spaces by people, averaging 25 hectares of land per family...
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Dr. Salvador Contrera...
saconbal@...
Jan 2, 2003 8:17 pm
Chuck: I have not been able to get Lombock's book. I follow the rule of Darwin, read first your opposers (if you can), and study opposing facts. For the same...
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Dr. Salvador Contrera...
saconbal@...
Jan 2, 2003 8:17 pm
Chuck: Are you sure: Absolutely?. I do not know of anybody being absolute ever. Science is probability. Would a "BBM" attitude be better?. Are you sure?. I...
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Dr. Salvador Contrera...
saconbal@...
Jan 2, 2003 8:17 pm
Some theories are or have been based on other theories. Those are not facts, but being BASED ON FACTS, they are of same value (look for metaanalysis and...
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Dr. Salvador Contrera...
saconbal@...
Jan 2, 2003 8:17 pm
Obviously some of such words are not strict synonyms: e.g. divination, speculation, hypothesis and theory (that was the first . Dictionaries should be more...
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Dr. Salvador Contrera...
saconbal@...
Jan 2, 2003 8:18 pm
Interesting viewpoint I would like to see expanded or published. However, I do not see the DNA replacement, unless the gods devise something different. ...
Again, it has been shown (Reichert et al.) that climate variations prior to the late 1800s were produced exclusively by INTERNAL variations in the climate...
I cannot believe that you or anyone else believes such lunacy! It is simply not true. No wonder you are so convinced about AGW!! You aren't thinking. If the...
I must live on a diffrent planet than your Earth, because where I work in the Arctic of Canada, the glaciers are retreating, and the permafrost is no longer...
States like Wisconsin have more acreage in forest now than it did at the time of the turn of the century (due to "the cutover" in the late 1800s). Whatever the...
GHG emissions now striking correspondence to GHGs 55M yrs ago "The striking correspondence between the quantities of carbon introduced without man's influence...
And I repeat, as I always do - climate changes, and always has, and always will. We are only just beginning to be able to understand it, and see it for...
John, there is no debate. The assertion that humanity has major effects on climate may, under some standard of proof and under some definition of "theory" be...