Cowpuncher
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It now appears that the whole global warming thing is rapidly turning into the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.
Some billions of years ago, according to the big bang theory and those that study these things, the earth was formed. Almost all of the matter which is now present on the planet was there when it started, with perhaps, some minor stuff that arrived later as meteors.
The carbon which the climate change people are so worried about was probably in the form of carbon dioxide. The nitrogen which makes up most of the atmosphere was probably in the form of ammonia NH3.
No doubt there was some plain old water vapor imvolved.
Over untold millions of years, the ammonia split into water and hydrocarbons from the carbon dioxide. Plant life converted a bunch of CO2 into hydrocarbons like coal, natural gas and oil which became a part of the earth's crust.Certainly the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere was greater than it is now.
Probably, even the carbon in our soil and that in the hydrocarbons including shale oil, tar sands, oil, gas, peat bogs, etc is far greater that that in the atmosphere.
Geologists tell us, and they can prove it, that a large part of the earth which is now desert was once primeval forest with lush vegetation. Almost every place on earth where there are sedimentary rock has some evidence of prior plant life.
We also know now that deserts such as the Sahara, Khalari and Gobi are expanding, reducing the available arable land where crops can be grown.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that aspen trees were tested for effects of higher CO2 level in their atmosphere. (I don't know how they did it, but that is their report.) Anyway, they found that when the CO2 levels were increased, the growth rate of trees accelerated greatly indicating that CO2 enhances growth of plant life.
If this is so, it seems that a bit of higher CO2 in the amosphere would actually be good and that the encroaching deserts may well be partially the result of lower CO2 levels than in the past millenia.
I do not know if the ideas above are valid since I am an old goat and too lazy to find out, BUT before mankind spends untold trillions of dollars fixing something that is not broken , someone else might check it out.
Some billions of years ago, according to the big bang theory and those that study these things, the earth was formed. Almost all of the matter which is now present on the planet was there when it started, with perhaps, some minor stuff that arrived later as meteors.
The carbon which the climate change people are so worried about was probably in the form of carbon dioxide. The nitrogen which makes up most of the atmosphere was probably in the form of ammonia NH3.
No doubt there was some plain old water vapor imvolved.
Over untold millions of years, the ammonia split into water and hydrocarbons from the carbon dioxide. Plant life converted a bunch of CO2 into hydrocarbons like coal, natural gas and oil which became a part of the earth's crust.Certainly the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere was greater than it is now.
Probably, even the carbon in our soil and that in the hydrocarbons including shale oil, tar sands, oil, gas, peat bogs, etc is far greater that that in the atmosphere.
Geologists tell us, and they can prove it, that a large part of the earth which is now desert was once primeval forest with lush vegetation. Almost every place on earth where there are sedimentary rock has some evidence of prior plant life.
We also know now that deserts such as the Sahara, Khalari and Gobi are expanding, reducing the available arable land where crops can be grown.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reported that aspen trees were tested for effects of higher CO2 level in their atmosphere. (I don't know how they did it, but that is their report.) Anyway, they found that when the CO2 levels were increased, the growth rate of trees accelerated greatly indicating that CO2 enhances growth of plant life.
If this is so, it seems that a bit of higher CO2 in the amosphere would actually be good and that the encroaching deserts may well be partially the result of lower CO2 levels than in the past millenia.
I do not know if the ideas above are valid since I am an old goat and too lazy to find out, BUT before mankind spends untold trillions of dollars fixing something that is not broken , someone else might check it out.