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Article #525So much about Kyoto
From: Fabrikant
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:25
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:25
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I have heard on TV that the amount of energy the whole population of our planet is using during one year is equal to the amount of energy which the Earth receives from the sun during just one hour. If this is really so, then the energy consumed by humans is less than 0.02% of the energy received from the sun. Even if the energy consumption by humans will go to zero, the Earth will not notice this in any shape or form and humans are certainly not responsible for the so-called global warming. We are so busy drawing horror pictures of global warming that we neglect to mention some obvious pluses of global warming. For example, thawing of Arctic Ocean will allow cheaper and faster shipping from Europe and Russia to American West coast. Huge spaces in Siberia and Canada will become inhabitable and fit for agriculture, mineral exploration, etc. On the other hand, they scare us to death that polar bear would not be able to hunt. Well, take 1% of additional profits from above mentioned activities, hire helicopters and fly year-round food drops for polar bears. I hope they would not mind getting ready-to-eat food thrown to them from helicopters. Much is said about global warming and hurricanes. Well, the last record of named hurricanes was established in 1933, year when energy consumption was the lowest due to depression. Older people might remember the drought and heat waves of 1930-ties. These days, scientists are scaring us with droughts, while forgetting that droughts and other pestilence was recorded since Bible times, except then it was attributed to God. Carbon dioxide was vilified to such an extent, that everybody forgot that it is an absolute necessity and if it disappears, all life will disappear with it, because it is the main component in the photosynthesis. It is not harmful to health, so there is no need to fight it. We need to fight harmful pollutants, like mercury, sulphur, etc. Carbon dioxide is not one of them. All this does not mean that it is OK to cut forests or to destroy wild animals habitat; we just should not confuse apples with oranges. Fabrikant
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