Finally got around to seeing An Inconvenient Truth.
Outstanding is Melissa Etheridge singing the song of the title
The joke about a science teacher, who thought that Africa and South America were never joined now being a Scientific Advisor for the current administration is much funnier in 2009 with Obama in.
A couple of questions:
If todays CO2 levels are the highest they've been in 600,000 years where was it all hiding?
And what was the world like before it was tied up in our fossil fuels?
The reason it's in our fossil fuels is photosynthesis:
2n CO2 + 2n H2O + photons → 2(CH2O)n + 2n O2
Surely the 'greenhouse gasses' must have been in the atmosphere in much higher concentrations back when Adam was a cowboy.
I guess the point is - do we want to go back to pre 600,000 CO2 levels and the uncertainty high CO2 will bring. Exponentially rising graphs never end well.
Can't wait to read Gareth Morgan on the subject:
Poles Apart: Beyond the shouting, who’s right about climate change? has been out for a couple of months now.
Greenpeace quotes him :
"NZ is an absolute joke, the home of double standards. New Zealand’s record on this is terrible. We’re a joke. If it’s anything like economics, you really need people to have their heads banged against the wall before they wake up and say; shivers, this is for real."
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