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Article #201Re: Kyoto Treaty May Cost 22,000 Lives Per Year
From: Richard Vialls
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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In article <6va7a1$g9s$2@news1.epix.net>, Harold Lindaberry
<harlind@epix.net> writes
> IMO the evidence for global climate warming may be valid or may not - mans
>contribution to total C in the system represents less than 0.1 %. and thus
>cannot
>be the diving force, the tail doesn't wag the dog.
I forget the exact figures now, I did the maths a year or two back, but
the system is *extremely* sensitive to change. IIRC an increase of 0.1%
in the carbon content of the atmosphere could result in something like a
0.5 degree raise in global temperatures - about what we're seeing so
far.
Richard Vialls (please replace nospam with demon for email & WWW)
Black Cat Electronics - contract electronics design
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104eff,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 110f21,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid110f21,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: fd92c,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gidfd92c,public X-Google-Thread: fb58e,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public X-Google-Thread: 105030,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid105030,public From: Richard Vialls <rvialls@blakcat.nospam.co.uk> Subject: Re: Kyoto Treaty May Cost 22,000 Lives Per Year Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <JbHCfRASXOG2EwQl@blakcat.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 397939383 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: blakcat.demon.co.uk:158.152.151.245 References: <361278AE.77C4FD03@reason.org> <KW1S8RARUzE2Ewxw@blakcat.demon.co.uk> <3613f30f.3559695@fermi.dialix.com.au> <ReNU+nA2CLF2Ew76@blakcat.demon.co.uk> <907508042.10302.0.nnrp-03.c2de9a2e@news.demon.co.uk> <yi9cxfA5vHG2EwF4@blakcat.demon.co.uk> <6va7a1$g9s$2@news1.epix.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 907602330 nnrp-05:978 NO-IDENT blakcat.demon.co.uk:158.152.151.245 Organization: Black Cat Electronics MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: ca.environment,aus.environment.misc,talk.environment,sci.environment,uk.environment,alt.politics.economics,ca.politics,ca.news