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We have to remember also that the release of large quantities of previously buried Carbon into the atmosphere as CO2 is not a new phenomenon. This happens every time a volcano erupts.

Thousands of major volcanic eruptions have occurred in the history of the Earth, and we're all still here. This tells us that the Earth already has a mechanism for dealing with "old" CO2 release.

We don't understand yet how this mechanism works, or what its limits are, so there is definite wisdom in a "play it safe until we know more" policy.

Many scientists believe that Global Warming theory is all "a storm in a teacup" - that accessible fossil fuels will simply run out long before mankind has had the chance to do any significant damage with them.

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“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” - H. L. Mencken

I see,I will let you off I supposse someone has to be a physicist . when I am not busy turning lead into gold, I will dig out my enviromental chem notes,and my molecular symmetry notes. To and a bit of light to the discussion

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Physicists isolate the fundamental building blocks that form the Cosmos we see around us. They then pass them on to chemists and biologists who will play with them for hours! (Old departmental insult from CalTech).
or,
If a biologist kills you, you die in writhing agony, probably infecting any that try to help you in your death-struggle; if a chemist kills you, the end comes quicker, but the building you are in may also cease to exist or you will be reduced to some ghastly, ichorous, dark liquid on the floor; if a physicist kills you, forensic scientists will spend years trying to decide why a perfectly fit and healthy person should drop dead in a bus queue...(not sure - Max Planck, I think).
And finally, from one of my own sixth-formers,
Physics is really very simple. You don't have to know much, but you have to understand a great deal...

The scientific hatchet is thus buried!

Interesting bit of astronomical observation of water vapour in planetary atmospheres here:- http://tinyurl.com/ygamad
I wonder if Uranus has Hummers?

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Aquila



Licat volare si super tergum aquila volat...

"MG"... Who was it said "The only true science is Physics... Everything else is just cooking."?

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"Politicians are the same the world over... We build bridges where there aren't any rivers." - Nikita Kruschev

Whereas physics is only about heating up?

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Paul Smith
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"Entropy increases"... So really, it'd be about "cooling down"...

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"Politicians are the same the world over... We build bridges where there aren't any rivers." - Nikita Kruschev

Except when I put my pre-cooked curry in the microwave, of course.

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Paul Smith
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Oh come on, now you're just being silly!

I've scared myself by the amount of this thread I actually managed to understand!

...and people claim that safe speed members are stupid....

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

At least physics demonstrates (within accepted theory!) that work is mad (mass x acceleration x distance)

On this we can all agree

If that's your attitude, you can't have any of my curry.

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Paul Smith
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