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Re: FW: - Climate Change Hearings and the roll(?) of nuclear power
Franz and Radsafe,
The pity is, I think, that you all did not hear as I did last weekend,
presentations of Jerry Cuttler on Hormesis (he was with the Belle group at the
Montana mine, and showed pictures of Pollycove and others there), and of Sally
Balliunas and Willie Soon presenting mountains of data on global non-warming (it
was warmer when Lief Ericson settled Greenland 1000 years ago). Any Kyoto fans
might then see Kyoto as pretext for global government and redistribution of
wealth, a tool for Karl Marx followers.
The good news is that next summer, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meets in
Phoenix in comfort, no thanks to the similar "Freon causes ozone hole and
melanoma" myth. We will, as always, have presentations by the top nuclear and
climate researchers.
Y'all come!
The reference given by Sally Balliunas for the CO2 coming into USA west coast
being more than leaves our east coast is Fan, in Science, '99. She says we can
find it on-line.
Whether its our forest mass increase or wheat, we shouldn't pay for a lie,
although maybe we should for the benefit of the CO2 we use up! What's this
"problem of CO2", Franz? Come visit the same friends you saw in the Montana
mine, next year in Phoenix.
Howard Long
Franz Schoenhofer wrote:
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM <SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM>
> An: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM <RuthWeiner@AOL.COM>; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
> Datum: Donnerstag, 01. August 2002 18:38
> Betreff: Re: FW: - Climate Change Hearings and the roll(?) of nuclear power
>
> >Radsafe:
> >The long term observations of CO2 concentration in air in the Northern
> >hemisphere [like Muana Loa ? sp?]
>
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> It is correctly spelled "Mauna Loa" - great place on the Big Island of
> Hawaii - you should go there!
>
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>
> in Hawaii show a steady increase in mean
> >CO2 concentration over the last 40 or so years with slight dips and rises
> of
> >a periodic annual nature.
>
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>
> Stations for monitoring CO2 in the atmosphere are spread all over the world.
> The monitoring goes back - as far as I know - to the beginning of the
> industrial age about 200 years back. There is not the slightest doubt, that
> the CO2 concentration has increased dramatically (sorry, I do not know the
> numbers by heart). Furthermore there is not the slightest doubt, that this
> increase has been caused by the human race: I hope everybody discussing CO2
> issues knows about the Suess-effect. CO2 of natural origin has a certain
> concentration of C-14, which is determined by the production rate of C-14 by
> cosmic rays, depending on solar cycles etc. CO2 originating from the burning
> of fossile fuels does not contain C-14, because the C-14 originally present
> in coal and oil has decayed. Therefore the result of mixing these two types
> of CO2 results in a depletion of C-14 in the mixture. This effect is of
> course not very much pronounced, but with modern analytical equipment has
> been confirmed since long - for instance in Silesia in Poland, where much
> coal is burnt for electricity generation.
>
> >
> >Each year as terrestrial plants burst into bloom in the spring and
> >photosynthesis increases there is a slight dip in CO2 concentration from
> >which the total photosynthesis of CO2 to fixed carbon in biomass can be
> >estimated. As net photosynthesis drops with the coming of winter the
> annual
> >sine-like wave of CO2 concentration goes up. The long term CO2 average has
> >been going up year by year with dramatic net increases in CO2 over the
> period
> >of all measurements.
> >
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>
> You forget, that while in the Northern Hemisphere spring approaches and
> photosynthesis increases, in the Southern Hemisphere autumn comes and kills
> the plants, makes them decay and emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. Well, the
> exchange of air masses between the Southern and the Northern Hemisphere is
> almost not existent. Contamination of the Southern Hemisphere by nuclear
> fallout is much lower than for the Northern Hemisphere, because the
> overwhelming number of atmospheric nuclear tests, especially with regard to
> their yield, have been conducted in the Northern Hemisphere. But in the long
> end the question or problem of CO2 can only be solved on a world wide basis.
> Again I have to say, that it is a pity, that the Kyoto Protocol seems to
> have failed.
>
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> >Photosynthesis is clearly not keeping up with the growing atmospheric
> >releases of CO2 although it does slow down the increase by a slight amount.
> >
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> To me it rather seems that photosynthesis would without human interference
> maintain an equilibrium between CO2 generated and removed. Whatever was and
> is manmade increased and will increase the CO2 concentration. Cutting down
> forests like in South America and other areas of the world additionally
> reduces the absorption of CO2 by photosynthesis. However I agree with Ruth,
> that algae etc. may have a much higher importance in photosynthesis
> CO2-fixation than all our forests on land.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Franz
>
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