Interesting environmental spin...
A couple days ago, a paper was published that showed the results of a nine-year study of CO2 uptake (1989 through 1998) in the world's oceans and it showed that the oceans are absorbing more CO2 than thought and that this would help to buffer the increased output from developing nations.
Now, supposed 'environmentalists' are looking at the increased absorption, comparing it with the amount of CO2 produced by human activities (as opposed to the much greater amount produced naturally) and saying that the Ocean's Absorption of "Anthropogenic" CO2 is causing shifts in the Ocean's pH and will cause problems with coral and shellfish populations.
As if the Ocean is able to differentiate...
About five to ten percent of the CO2 in the atmosphere today was produced by humans over the entire course of human history. For first-world nations, CO2 production has dropped since the 1940's because CO2 production means expenditure of fuel and this is expensive -- we have gotten better at industrial processes.
Why can't the Environmental business enjoy some good news for a change, they always have to make a crisis to sell their agenda...
Posted by DaveH at July 19, 2004 11:03 PM