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  more stinky logic

  Dear Sam,

  Indeed, it is; but why do you insult the intelligence of your readers by using it (unless you wrote from ignorance - in which case I apologize).

  It is, after all, NOT THE QUANTITY of carbon that is being moved around that is the problem here: it the EXCESS of carbon beyond the amount that should be circulating naturally that is the killer. A human produced .5% excess of circulating atmospheric carbon doesn't sound like much but that amount CUMULATES, year after year. If you added a FIXED amount of CO2 to the air (equivalent to .5% of the natural occurence at some base year), you would, at the end of 50 years have increased your CO2 by a dangerous 50 X 1/2 or 25 percent. If, however, the increase was .5% of the ANNUAL CO2 level ("compound interest" model), the rise would be even faster (and more dangerous). Why do people still continue to use this faulty argument at this - supposedly late - date in the global warming (GW) "debate"?

  Such vacuous GW denier propaganda is counterproductive because it suffocates the emergence of new technologies, new industrial processes, new lifestyles and new services - all of which, as technological and industrial history show repeatedly - are JOB and MARKET CREATORS. Thus GW deniers falsify the basic dynamic behind technological and industrial history with their claims that following the new energy enthusiasts would reduce us to "wearing loincloths and killing rabbits with rocks".

  As adult members of democracies (I live in N. America), who are supposedly (???) the rulers, don't we DESERVE better than stinky logic upon which to found public debate and decision making? These are weighty times and issues (ostensibly GW is a much greater danger than terrorism: the poverty and chaos it COULD generate would be the true Mother of All Terrorisms. Analysts note that islamoterrorists recruit among the poor and disaffected in black Africa for example..)On Sidr, a massive tropical cyclone, is going to hit Bangladesh-Indian border within 24 hrs posted 2 years ago 7 Responses