Re: FW: - Climate Change Hearings and the roll(?) of nuclear powe r

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

 John and Radsafers,,

"Nuclear advocates shouldn't use the carbon dioxide scare. But the

fact that

believers in global warming are [generally] opponents of nuclear power

shows that they

really don't care about the climate, only about decreasing the human

population and its economic well-being."

This comes from a physicist and physician who arranged dozens of authoritative

presentations of data on both low dose radiation and "global warming" at

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meetings  You'll find no more credible

info than in Phoenix, next summer.(Balling, etc).

I find your Sc Am ref. unscientific, the reason I cancelled my subscription.
It said, "More protein rich legumes grew in the CO2 enriched areas -" then ignores theincreased legume nitrogen binding, when the building block of life, carbon, is increased (as it rejects articles suggesting benefit from low dose radiation).

Why do you still refuse to support the ethics of a definitive study of benefit of low dose radiation? It could realign the work of most health physicists (persistently, on topic)

Howard Long

"Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" wrote:

 Maybe all of that CO2 being absorbed by plants is not really a good idea.  See.http://www.sciencenews.org/20000325/bob1.asp -- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024

E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H) 

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Subject: Re: FW: - Climate Change Hearings and the roll(?) of nuclear power
 

My two cents:

The observation that increased CO2 concentration in the air increases photosynthesis (thereby increasing the fixing of carbon as plant material -- trees and other plants) was made at least 30 years ago.  It is an expression of the chemical Law of Mass Action (increasing the quantity of reactant drives the reaction and increased the quantity of product).  A major question in the whole global climate change discussion is whether the resulting rate of photosynthesis is enough to keep atmospheric CO2 from increasing enough to cause climate change.  Aquatic micro-organisms contribute far more to the earth's photosynthesis than terrestrial plants, including trees.

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com