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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Increased CO2 is better for the growth of plants. That's a good thing rather than a bad thing. Greenhouses actually pump increased levels of CO2 into them to improve plants growth. Get it? hmm greenhouse gases. lol
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So you're saying that what's good for plants is good for humanity?
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
They would have never admitted to their "mistake" in the ice if it wasn't pointed out. The fact is they are only using data from the Western portion of the Antarctic to make their claims when the ice in the East is actually growing
Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html |
The article you quoted first was about the
Arctic. Which is NOT the same as the
Antarctic. Are you really that damn ignorant?
As for the link you posted about the Antarctic, it is quite interesting. First, because it shows that journalists are scientifically illiterate ("Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially" - false, the ice on Greenland alone being molten would raise sea levels substantially). Second, because it shows that Fox News isn't a particularly good source of scientific information.
Notice how, at the end of the article, this is mentioned:
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A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.
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That would be this article:
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/200...GL037524.shtml
Or, more easily readable:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l-warming.html (you'll need a subscription to get access to the full article - get it. a subscription to an actual science magazine definitely wouldn't hurt you)
From that last article:
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It seems CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals have given the South Pole respite from global warming.
But only temporarily. According to John Turner of the British Antarctic Survey, the effect will last roughly another decade before Antarctic sea ice starts to decline as well.
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But anyway, I'm off to bed.