> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 07:50:47 +0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Chris Burford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [CrashList] Can we afford desserts?
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have just caught an Open University (UK) programme about the experiments
> of Biosphere 2, a massive atmospherically-controlled closed system in
> California for the study of ecology.
[snippage for brevity only]
> So where did the CO2 go? It went, and this is ominous, into concrete.
> We are already on an escalator requiring more and more active socially
> responsible involvement in the environment just to keep some stability.
> Otherwise, less technically than the humans sealed into Biosphere 2, we
> will die out as a species.
>
>
> Chris Burford
>
> London
>
Subsequent later work in CO2 studies in the arctic environment compounds the
problem. In the biosphere of Earth -- as opposed to the controlled
Biospheres 1&2 -- the millions of years of CO2 absorption went not into
concrete but into the carbon sinks of soil, ocean floor and lake beds. As we
heat up the atmosphere, the CO2 is released. (very big time release.)
So a projected global government implementing draconian standards, rather
than Kyoto Protocol band-aids, could plant biomass on every square mile of
desert and still be playing catch-up as the temperatures rise ....
I believe this was one of the revealations of the last 12 months that had
made Mark so gloomy about our future. I know it did little to lighten MY
mood.
I am busy researching the tolerance of rats and roaches to increased CO2
levels Mark. (a joke, son) Perhaps not even THEY will inherit when we pass,
after all.
I wonder if Borodin or his captors have an eye on this problem? Surely such
a threat has more significance than their squabbles? Surely they have more
sane priorities than they display?
I know, I know: ... don't call you Shirley.
Tom Warren
(searching for GM techniques that will allow him to transpirate CO2)
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