Great Lakes Disappearing??

[baldbaby2000]

A little bit on the same lines as the grass/cow issue: I've always wondered why we don't harvest our forests more. It seems that by cutting down old trees that don't absorb as much CO2 as young trees, and planting new trees, we'd be reducing our atmospheric CO2. Some of the material from the harvested trees would end up breaking down and going into the atmosphere but a good part of it would end up in construction where it would remain in "storage," or in landfills where it would decay very slowly. A newspaper in a landfill lasts a long long time.

Daniel

[Catigale]

Making most anything consumes energy, which usually puts CO2 back into the environment...ergo, no help on the CO2 problem.

[bastonjock]

i saw a short program on the box tonight,they are using advanced solar technology in Spain,sevile to be precise,they have built 1 generating complex and are building 8 more,this will provide a city like sevile with all of its energy requirements.

[baldbaby2000]

Wal Mart and Google are going green by going solar on some facilities. Whether this makes sense or is just to get tax breaks in California and appear to be green I don't know. It's easy to go green if you're swimming in money!

[tangentair]

The Uk looks like it is going to increase its number of Nuke power plants,the problem is,what do you do with all that "used urainium"

it is actually quite useful as a heavy metal, better than lead for armor plating and bullets. So as long as we are going to have to deal with the fact that our oil some how got stuck under their sands (OK I saw that on a bumper sticker this weekend) and liked the irony.
I am headed out this afternoon to buy "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein. Just got a 30% off Borders coupon and it is burning a hole in my pocket. The premise is that corporations are supposed to make money and when they see an opportunity like a disaster they step in to take advantage of it. (I am not saying that is good or bad - this is not the pub) It looks at how this has occurred over the last 50 or so years and the reason I am interested is that those corporations positioning themselves for the result of ...

The research that is being carried out by the Norwegian government is quite scary,they have drilled deep into the permanent ice cap to look at the effects of climate change in the past.

They found that the ice has melted before and it pushes the gulf steam south and then another ice age starts,the sea levels will drop and all of the old land bridges will reapear

might be a good place to park all those 401K dollars if Obama pulls us out of Iraq and Haliburton has to find real work. So if the ice cap melts the sea level rises and gulf stream moves south we get an ice age again and sea levels drop. OK I can hardly wait for Kevin's pictorial on this....

[baldbaby2000]

It looks at how this has occurred over the last 50 or so years and the reason I am interested is that those corporations positioning themselves for the result of ...

More like the past 200+ years. The corruption during and after the Civil War makes the current stuff look mild.

[John Christian]

I don't think I want to get in on the Global Warming debate, but we have had a record snowfall this winter in SE Michigan. That should translate to some higher lake levels this season. At least that's what I keep telling myself while I'm shoveling it!