[Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change

[David Yarrow]

i think this quote below is utter and complete nonsense by hardheads still 
stuck in denial, who are willynilly willing to fabricate data to support 
their unwillingness to admit how massively human industrial abuse of nature 
is dismantling the ecosystems that are our planetary life support systems.

over the decades, having dealt with many addictive, self righteous and 
self-centered personalities, i know reality is no obstacle for such people 
to rationalize and sustain their behaviors and habits.  and what we are 
faced with is an entire society massively addicted to oil, coal and wood 
products consumption.

since the 70s, it has been my observation (and many others') that trees in 
general are not growing well, and in fact are actively dying on many 
mountaintops.  any ecologically sentient person who drives through any 
american city can see ample evidence trees are not healthy, and are in 
serious decline.  and along highways there is lots more evident evidence. 
and if that isn't enough factual data about the deepening crisis of trees 
and forests, just study the data for several steady years of increasing 
forest fires, and over-spent budgets for fire fighting.

or consult the data on the increase of deserts worldwide.

considering that trees and forests are the lungs of the earth that allow the 
biosphere and atmosphere to breathe out oxygen and fix carbon, this has very 
serious and rapidly onrushing consequences.

what is truly alarming isn't that the trees and forests are declining. what 
is alarming is how few humans notice and grasp the significance.  we are 
raising a generation that is computer literate, but has little ecological 
literacy -- no capacity to observe, understand and interact intelligently 
with nature.

David Yarrow
"If yer not forest, yer against us."
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Davis" <jeff0124 at velocity.net>
To: "terrapreta" <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] A New Theory of Climate Change


> "A review of the research literature concerning the environmental 
> consequences
> of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion
> that increases during the 20th Century have produced no deleterious 
> effects
> upon global weather, climate, or temperature. Increased carbon dioxide 
> has,
> however, markedly increased plant growth rates. Predictions of harmful
> climatic effects due to future increases in minor greenhouse gases like 
> CO2
> are in error and do not conform to current experimental knowledge."
>
> end of snippet:
> http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
>
> Lots of data and science.