[Terrapreta] Global Warming arguments

[Peter Read]

Man has likely been influencing climate for 8000 years - read Bill Ruddiman's recent book  http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8014.html .
Basically, his thesis is that forest clearance for agriculture has released sufficient CO2 over the millennia to prevent earth's climate from reverting to the ice age that is now well overdue.  

Personally I have never understood what the word "anthropogenic' is doing in the UN Climate Change Convention 
If you see an avalanche coming you don't hang around to ask if it was triggered off by a thunder clap or a rifle shot.
If a large meteorite were approaching spaceship earth you would applaud NASA's efforts to nuke it off course.
If the climate system is stuffing up, let's not ask who's to blame, but use our wits to try to get it back on track, 
Especially as Ruddiman tells us it has been done in the past, albeit unwittingly, by our much less knowledgable stone age ancestors. 

Peter
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Greg and April 
  To: Michael Bailes ; Terra Preta 
  Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 3:11 AM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Global Warming arguments


  It's not just a matter of whether or not GW is happening, it's also a matter on whether or not it's natural or anthropologic in nature.

  If GW is happening because of natural forces - we are wasting our time, in talking about sequestering carbon and all the talk about the high CO2 numbers, because it's going to happen, and I truly doubt that man can do anything about it.

  Greg H.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Michael Bailes 
    To: Terra Preta 
    Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 6:39
    Subject: [Terrapreta] Global Warming arguments


    Some global warming links
    http://geology.com/news/2007/global-warming-cartoon-series-from-npr.shtml

    Should we agree to disagree about whether Global warming is a fact or not?

    Surely just saving resources (water, fertiliser ) and increased crop production is enough to be going on with?

    There are so many debates on -line about whether global warming is happening or not 
    Do we need another here?

    Regardless, isn't it wise to husband/save our resources despite the predictions of dire gloom?

    -- 
    Michael the Archangel
    "Politicians will never solve The Problem;
    because they don't realise they are The Problem.".
    -Robert ( Bob ) Parsons 1995



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