Topic: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Help Tropical Rain Forests Grow Faster (Read 1564 times)

This is the main thing that needs to be done, they are alive and have been for longer than our fathers and their fathers and we chop them down at the rate we do is sickening i really do hate it all them animals that get wiped out along the way. I have a friend that grows weed he swears by co2, that gets them super bushy, well so he says Stop chopping the lungs of the planet and our children might just survive the tree's have survived worse levels than current and they ended up around most of the planet for the dinosaurs.  

So... The particles would deflect sunlight, thus reducing global warming all over the world... Like a (super) volcano? Hum.

After hearing the argument that "we should build more coal-fired power plants because the particle emissions reflect more heat generated by sunlight than the negative effect of the entrapped CO2" I thought I have heard everything.

After hearing the argument that "we should build more coal-fired power plants because the particle emissions reflect more heat generated by sunlight than the negative effect of the entrapped CO2" I thought I have heard everything.

But I suspect the tropical forests will soon all die, due to water shortages.  This sort of thing can't continue for long -

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-majority-of-earths-potable-water-trapped-in,38356/

Methane and Water Vapor are way, way, way more effective greenhouse gasses than CO2, but for whatever reaon CO2 gets all the bad press.  Meanwhile, the world's forests grows as measure by sattelite far outpace the predictions of the past century due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere.

http://www.co2science.org/subject/f/summaries/forests.php

There's a lot more to atmospheric science than what 99% of the public understand and what is reported on main stream media outlets.

But I suspect the tropical forests will soon all die, due to water shortages.  This sort of thing can't continue for long -

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-majority-of-earths-potable-water-trapped-in,38356/

Human beings need five liters a day for hydration and 25 liters a day for minimum hygiene. That accounts for a whopping 1.5% of freshwater extraction for human purposes. Unconventional fuel-source extraction and ever-thirstier agriculture account for a wildly disproportionate share of the rest. The thinking goes that if there were a value placed on that remaining 98.5% of the water we use, we might use it in a more appropriate manner.

The companies' conflicts with communities in Latin America, Asia, and Africa are too numerous and sordid to be invented from whole cloth. Moreover, the simple fact is that sucking groundwater out of one place, bottling it, and shipping it for sale in another place that typically already has perfectly safe public water ranks high on the list of stupid things to do with scarce water.

So yes, Coca-Cola and Nestle are indeed sucking us dry. So are our modern agricultural practices and unconventional oil and gas extraction, to an even greater extent. A blended privatization scheme may indeed be part of the solution, but if it's done right, it will only make life harder for Coke and Nestle.

The Coca-Cola company proudly boasts that it has a water use ratio of 2.7 to 1. That is, for every 2.7 liters of water (freshwater) it takes from the earth, it produces 1 liter of product. What happens to the remaining 1.7 liters (or 63%) of the water? It is used to clean bottles and machinery, and is discarded as wastewater.
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Coca-Cola's water use ratio in India is 4 to 1 - that is, 75% of the freshwater it extracts is turned into wastewater. The company has indiscriminately discharged its wastewater into the surrounding fields, severely polluting the scarce remaining groundwater as well as soil.  

For example, in Colorado, over a period of a few years, Nestlé spent a large amount of money negotiating a water deal with the three-member Board of Chaffee County Commissioners and with the Aurora City Council, while buying land in the areas near where the Arkansas River runs. Close to 80 percent of the county’s 17,000 residents opposed the deal,[20] mainly because environmentalists (citing Nestlé’s detrimental impact in communities where they already operate) raised alarms about the potentially devastating consequences for Aurora City’s watershed and nearby wetlands.[21] After a 7 to 4 vote of approval by the Aurora City Council and a unanimous agreement by the Chaffee County Commissioners, over the next decade Nestlé will extract 650 million gallons of Arkansas Valley water so that every day they can load 25 trucks with 8,000 gallons of water, drive 120 miles to a bottling plant in Denver, and fill millions of plastic Arrowhead Springs water bottles to be sold in the western US.[22]In addition to being targeted by locals who want control of their water sources back, Nestlé is also at the epicenter of the growing bottled water controversy. The company dominates nearly a third of the lucrative US bottled water market[23] with seven domestically-produced subsidiary brands (including Arrowhead Springs, Calistoga and Poland Spring)—making Nestlé a key contributor to one of today’s most significant environmental threats. That is, US consumers purchase about 28 billion bottles of water every year, but recycle only about 23 percent of the plastic petroleum-based containers used for water or soda. The rest end up polluting roadsides, landfills and oceans, and leach toxins into ecosystems while taking about a millennium to degrade.[24]

Methane and Water Vapor are way, way, way more effective greenhouse gasses than CO2, but for whatever reaon CO2 gets all the bad press.  Meanwhile, the world's forests grows as measure by sattelite far outpace the predictions of the past century due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere.

http://www.co2science.org/subject/f/summaries/forests.php

There's a lot more to atmospheric science than what 99% of the public understand and what is reported on main stream media outlets.

Now all we gotta do is stop chopping them the fuck down.