2011年4月14日星期四

Of the types of travel that contribute to global warming


Of the types of travel that contribute to global warming, jet travel contributes the third-highest amount of CO2 emissions. One statistic from Alternatives to Globalization by Gerry Mander and John Cavanagh states, ¡°a two-minute takeoff by a 747 is equal to 2.4 million lawn mowers running for 20 minutes.¡± Takeoff, of course, is only one portion of the quantity of fuel jets require. An average of one ton of CO2 emissions are released for every study abroad flight.LV Designer Handbags

True thermophobes, the authors just cannot face reality. It was global warming that had the well-publicized chorus of boosters behind it. The ¡°contrarians¡± were initially drowned out by the din of catastrophist predictions, including overly excitable scientists, publicity seeking politicians and media talking-heads. It is the global warming skeptics that have battled back to bring some balance to the climate change debate.Cheap Designer Handbags

The initial whole-Earth decompression is expected to result in a global system of major primary decompression cracks appearing in the rigid crust which persist as the basalt feeders for the global, mid-oceanic ridge system. But here the similarity with Earth expansion theory ends. As the Earth subsequently decompresses, the area of the Earth¡¯s surface increases by the formation of secondary decompression cracks, often located near the continental margins, presently identified as oceanic trenches. These secondary decompression cracks are subsequently in-filled with basalt, extruded from the mid-oceanic ridges, which traverses the ocean floor by gravitational creep, As I mentioned at the start of this report, there seems to be a new trend developing among the supporters of anthropogenic global warming. That trend is to stop pressing the developed nations to commit economic suicide and shift the socio-climatological propaganda war to a new front¡ªmitigating the social impact of global warming. Do not be taken in by this shift in emphasis, the aim is still to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor ones while turning the UN into a form of world government to limit the power of the developed nations.

The notion that humans could override nature and force the globe to warm intrigued Hansen. "It had been known for more than a century that increasing carbon dioxide could have an effect on global temperature," Hansen said (referring to the pioneering work of John Tyndall and Svante Arrhenius in the 1800s). But global warming in the near future? That was another matter.suyuanyuan

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