Saturday, January 14, 2006
New Global Warming Demon Found: Plants
The "earth is doomed because of global warming" crowd has been telling the rest of us for years that if man would just cut back on development, just halt some of that capitalist progression, then the earth might not heat up so fast, and we would all be saved. A socialist agrarian economy might be best, some of them must be thinking.
This story will definitely throw a kink into their plans. Actually, it blows them apart.
One of the culprits behind "global warming" (which we have demonstrated here time and time again, is natural to the planet and cannot be stopped or changed) is plants.
How they stop this one, should be enjoyable to watch.
New source of global warming gas found: plants
Hmmm...since humans on the planet have gone from about 1 billion to 6 billion in that same 150 years, it is amazing that such gas concentrations have only tripled.
However, in fairness, we here at Joobo have concocted a small play for our friends to use when arguing how to stop this form of "global warming":
Scene: a dinner table, somewhere in America.
Father: Boy, am I hungry! Pass me some of that broccoli!
Son: I will even eat some even though I don't like it.
Mother: No broccoli tonight, folks. The plants they come from cause global warming.
Father: Oh, okay. How about some salad?
Mother: Sorry! The lettuce, tomatoes, grains used in the dressing can cause global warming.
Father: How silly of me! Pass me that steak!
Mother: Whoops - the grain used to feed the cattle comes from plants. It's a no-no.
Father: So, let me in on what we CAN eat.
Mother: Slurpees.
This socialist play, "Father Gets a Lesson in Capitalist Global Warming Crimes" has been brought to you by the number 6, which is the number of leftists in America with IQs higher than 10, and by the letter "B," which is the capital letter of their whole program for humanity: BULLSHIT.
The "earth is doomed because of global warming" crowd has been telling the rest of us for years that if man would just cut back on development, just halt some of that capitalist progression, then the earth might not heat up so fast, and we would all be saved. A socialist agrarian economy might be best, some of them must be thinking.
This story will definitely throw a kink into their plans. Actually, it blows them apart.
One of the culprits behind "global warming" (which we have demonstrated here time and time again, is natural to the planet and cannot be stopped or changed) is plants.
How they stop this one, should be enjoyable to watch.
New source of global warming gas found: plants
LONDON (Reuters) - German scientists have discovered a new source of methane, a greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in its impact on climate change.
The culprits are plants.
They produce about 10 to 30 percent of the annual methane found in the atmosphere, according to researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.
The scientists measured the amount of methane released by plants in controlled experiments. They found it increases with rising temperatures and exposure to sunlight.
"Significant methane emissions from both intact plants and detached leaves were observed ... in the laboratory and in the field," Dr Frank Keppler and his team said in a report in the journal Nature.
Methane, which is produced by city rubbish dumps, coal mining, flatulent animals, rice cultivation and peat bogs, is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in terms of its ability to trap heat.
Concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere have almost tripled in the last 150 years. About 600 million tonnes worldwide are produced annually.
Hmmm...since humans on the planet have gone from about 1 billion to 6 billion in that same 150 years, it is amazing that such gas concentrations have only tripled.
However, in fairness, we here at Joobo have concocted a small play for our friends to use when arguing how to stop this form of "global warming":
Scene: a dinner table, somewhere in America.
Father: Boy, am I hungry! Pass me some of that broccoli!
Son: I will even eat some even though I don't like it.
Mother: No broccoli tonight, folks. The plants they come from cause global warming.
Father: Oh, okay. How about some salad?
Mother: Sorry! The lettuce, tomatoes, grains used in the dressing can cause global warming.
Father: How silly of me! Pass me that steak!
Mother: Whoops - the grain used to feed the cattle comes from plants. It's a no-no.
Father: So, let me in on what we CAN eat.
Mother: Slurpees.
This socialist play, "Father Gets a Lesson in Capitalist Global Warming Crimes" has been brought to you by the number 6, which is the number of leftists in America with IQs higher than 10, and by the letter "B," which is the capital letter of their whole program for humanity: BULLSHIT.
