[Terrapreta] expansion

[MFH]

Greg - I googled for air well and got a lot of unrelated nonsense. I'm
assuming it's a shaft that goes down to the aquifer, and somehow moist air
is circulated (at night?) over plants to provide a dew-like watering?

 

M

 

 

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To: Sean K. Barry
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From: Sean K. Barry <mailto:sean.barry at juno.com>  

To: lou <mailto:lou.gold at gmail.com>  gold ; Greg and April
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Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] expansion

 

Hi Greg,

 

What % of the population now currently "thrives" in the deserts of the
world?  Do you really think most of the human race can learn to adapt to the
kinds of climate and species changes that would occur in the next century?
Really?  How so?  Could you adapt to farming on a desert with no water ( Do
you know what an air well is?  They are closely related to fog fences and
have been built so large in acient times as to support moderate size vilages
[ located in arid areas ] with water ), no seeds, no animals, and no end to
the heat?  How will you adapt?  I did not say humans would become extinct
right away as the first a species to go.  But with large percentages of
living species disappearing, what will we eat?

 

 

What makes you think that the world will turn into a real life version of
DUNE?    As that is excatly what it would take - and it would have to do so,
faster than men can build a desalination plants.    The very nature of the
earth's geology and meterology, make it impossable for it to happen, unless
most of the water end's up in space.   

 

You like to make this claim that CO2 cause plant life to flourish, that it
acts like a fertilizer of a sort.

 

 

Please stop twisting my words to fit your agenda.    I said :

 

Remember, fossil records indicate that during times of high CO2, plant life
flourished and the number of species ( plant ) usually increased.    

 

 

I know plants use CO2.  Do you know that if humans are pumping lots of CO2
into the atmosphere (like we have been for at least 150 years), then if your
theory were correct, then atmospheric CO2 concentrations should not have
gone UP?!  Why aren't the plants taking up the excess CO2?  

 

I'm just guessing here, but could it be due to things like deforestation and
urbanization to name a couple?    I'm fairly sure it is my self.    < wink >

 

I would expect that plant life could maybe stabilize CO2 levels after
millions of years.  But humans are causing large increase in CO2
concentrations.  The plants and the oceans are not absorbing the CO2 we put
out.  If they were or could then the concentrations would not be up, would
they?

 

No one said that it was an overnight process - as you would like to make it
appear.

 

Okay, I've repeated this.  It is repeated all over this subject by many more
people than me.  So, what argument can you make that dismisses this
argument?  Why, if plants take up CO2 are CO2 concentrations still rising
and rising faster than ever before?  Can you answer that?!

 

Things like deforestation and urbanization are also occuring faster than
ever before.    More crop land is also been less productive than ever before
in the history of man - but then thats why I thought that is why we were
here and one of the biggest things that made TP so good.

 

Greg H.

 

 

 

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