Fed, forgive me for not reading your post at the time, glad to look at it now though.

ash (been playing Dylan today Fed )

Yes, there is a trap of looking at one or two pieces of evidence only so the bigger picture of what happens when several factors are at work is missed.

Volcanoes put carbon dioxide into the air yes, it was that which brought the earth out of the last ice age. The problem for earth today is the RATE at which mean global surface temperatures are increasing. Human activity is causing an acceleration of a phenomenon the earth has undergone many times before, but there is a very real risk of causing a POSITIVE FEEDBACK cycle of warming.

This means that warming could cause melting of methane trapped in permafrost. Methane is four times more potent than CO2. This will cause a further increase of MGST, more melting of permafrost and ice caps. Less snow and ice to reflect sunlight and therefore infra red radiation. Warmer water in the oceans will expand causing sea levels to rise, melt water will also contribute. Cutting forests removes a valuable carbon sink. Burning fossil fuels has removed a carbon sink and put it back into the atmosphere. There is a runaway spiralling of temperature increase. The article you cited points out that the largest termite emissions happen in tropical areas disturbed by human activity. Clearing of forests which turn CO2 into long term carbon stores (therefore methane too since it is a product of decomposition of living things).

All this goes on over a very, very long time. Millions of years.

Science isn’t wrong, how findings are communicated to the general public is sometimes misunderstood. The problem for humans is flooding, drought, displacement of huge unbelievably huge numbers of starving people. This will happen in a relatively short timespan. In a few hundreds of years. Maybe faster than that. It may be happening now, we have seen very severe flooding, even freak events more frequently over the past 100 years. Science says it’s too early to say if this is a pattern which will continue and increase. It could be freak events which come and go for no obvious reason. But when viewed with the earth’s long term history and our knowledge about greenhouse gasses and their effects, we’d be very foolish to not consider this could be the start of runaway global warming.

The relatively short time span is the biggest problem because of the social implications for humans.

(I’m not dead clever, I studied this last year and it’s still fresh in my mind )

ash

I play ‘The Blue” and ‘Time’ a few times every morning before I go to work, thanks for your great music.

I’d like to bring one thing to everybody’s attention about Global Warming…

15,000 years ago, the Arctic ice cap was a mile tall and this wall of ice came down south all the way to present day North America. Well, we didn’t melt it all.
Mother nature is responsible for 99.997% of Global Warming. Only 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere is ‘green house’ gases and 97% of that 1% is Water Vapor (clouds, rain). So 0.3% of 1% of gases like Carbon Dioxide remain. ALL of this Carbon Dioxide was here long, long, long before cavemen drove 500 hp. Dodge Chargers.

Science Magazine, Nov. 1982…

“The world’s Termites generate far more than TWICE the amount of Carbon Dioxide that generates by burning fossil fuels.”

Most of the Earth’s 1 degree rise in temp. happened before 1940, and so far all of the climate models have been wrong, so look into this with an open mind about what Volcanoes put into the air compared to what man puts in the air.

Adam A, USA

Hi, I’m a medical Doctor in León Guanajuato Mexico, this is the first time in my life that I use your internet communication, it´s very good to me because you are a very important person to me for your music style, your serenity, and your guitar feeling. I´m 41 years old and my son, 16, is now starting the guitar. If you come to my city you have here your house, friends and fans who wish you Merry Christmas to your family and you.

Thanks David for reading my lines.

Dr. José Miguel López Zepeda.

By now it should be overwhelmingly obvious that the whole global warming scam (AKA Climate Change) is nothing more than a money and power grab similar to the extreme socialist movements of the past. The ones in Germany in the early 1900s and the one that ruined Russia – also in the early 1900s. To repeat this error once again but on a larger scale (globally) would be the greatest crime against humanity the world has ever seen. It will make Hitler and Lenin look like boy-scouts.

If you like watching videos on this subject there are literally hundreds that show Al Gore to be a charlatan, a crook, a hypocrite, and a deep socialist. Remember he essentially is the man who brought plagues of NAFTA and GATT upon the American people and the world.

Here is the latest video I’ve discovered on the topic. It shows the incredible fraud Al Gore is attempting to perpetrate on the unsuspecting citizens of the world.