Global Warming not so bad....

[insein]

http://cnn.worldnews.printthis.clic...ouse.resilient.reut/index.html&partnerID=2006

Report: Global warming not so bad



SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- Australian scientists have found the Earth may be more resilient to global warming than first thought, and they say a warmer world means a wetter planet, encouraging more plants to grow and soak up greenhouse gases.

"The global water cycle has changed in response to greenhouse emissions," almost 100 Australian greenhouse scientists said in an annual statement on their research received on Wednesday.

"As the world warms it is, on average, getting wetter," said the scientists, who met recently under the banner of Australia's Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Accounting. According to its Web site, the group's corporate sponsors are Alcoa Alumina Australia, the petroleum giant Royal Dutch/Shell, and Stanwell Corporation Limited, an energy company owned by the state of Queensland.

A wetter and cloudier world would see more plants and more photosynthesis to counter greenhouse gases and also mean less evaporation as less solar radiation reaches the Earth.

"Contrary to widespread expectations, potential evaporation from the soil and land-based water bodies like lakes is decreasing in most places," the scientists said.

An increase in trees and shrubs in the world's grasslands in recent decades was a major counter to greenhouse gases, they said.

"Forests, farms and grasslands across the world absorb significant volumes of greenhouse gases. They have the potential to absorb more, ameliorating climate change.

"Properly managed, they could buy time for the world's people to make the major reductions in greenhouse emissions from power generation, industry and transport that will be required to reduce the damage from climate change."



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Further proof that our planet has sustained worse things then us before and lived.

 

[Avatar4321]

On top of that. more beachfront property thats useful.

 

[Merlin1047]

"and they say a warmer world means a wetter planet, encouraging more plants to grow "


OH MY GOD!!!!!!

WE'RE ALL GOING TO MILDEW TO DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!:fifty:

 

[insein]

this is to combat idiots that take that new movie too literally.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/m...200&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=

 

[Isaac Brock]

Correct, but if there are a reduced number of plants from deforestation, they still will not be able to uptake the CO2 in sufficient quantities.

 

[fuzzykitten99]

I love how these people say that they believe in evolution, but refuse to believe that the Earth can evolve too. If there IS such thing as global warming, then why can't our state seem to get past 70F deg. for more than 2 days straight when we should be higher than that?

 

[DKSuddeth]

Its because its an overall average from around the globe that they refer to. That means that while most places are a bit warmer, some few experience the opposite and in a very odd way.

 

[dmp]

Somebody once told me there exists today MORE forrest land than did 100 years ago, in the USA.

(shrug).

This planet may have a history of climate changes. When the world was created some 10,000? years ago, it was likely a much different climate than we have today. If the world as we know it exists 10k years from now, it'll surely be a different place.

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Environmentalists are just communist anti americans in disguise.

 

[dilloduck]

I think they are more like anarchists but helping America is NOT one of thier priorities.

 

[nycflasher]

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[rtwngAvngr]

Liberals are becoming more and more creationist. They don't like the implications of evolution and have villified any reference to anything biological in public discourse as "social darwinism". They hate the very idea of advantageous traits, because they hate the fact the selection still occurs on an individual level. Some of these closet commies are on our board.

 

[nycflasher]

Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
Liberals are becoming more and more creationist. They don't like the implications of evolution and have villified any reference to anything biological in public discourse as "social darwinism". They hate the very idea of advantageous traits, because they hate the fact the selection still occurs on an individual level. Some of these closet commies are on our board.

You're just full of misinformation and generalizations, today...:

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Originally posted by nycflasher
You're just full of misinformation and generalizations, today...:

Call me The Truth Bomb. I'm WMD on steroids, or from hell, or whatever.