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Too hot for life?(Between The Lines)
ITEM: President Bush's plans to combat the supposed threat of global warming "without mandatory controls" have changed little in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, complained the January 1 Washington Post. A panel of the National Academy of Sciences concluded in June 2001, reported the Post, that global warming "is a real problem caused at least in part by man-made pollution building up in the atmosphere and trapping heat like a blanket."
ITEM: Another widely publicized claim was typified by an Agence France-Presse story on January 7: "Over one million plants and animals--a quarter of all life on land--could become extinct in just decades due to human-made climate change, scientists say. The main culprit for this change, they say in an article ... in the British journal Nature, is greenhouse gases...."
BETWEEN THE LINES: This presumptive looming disaster is the latest in a series of predicted catastrophes--from famine, to calamities supposedly caused by chemicals or nuclear power, to dire climate conjectures--used as excuses to drive government policies. These apparitions of apocalypse again bear out H.L. Mencken's observation: "The whole aim of ...
- Ecological Responses and Adaptations of Crops to Rising Atmospheric Carbon...
- Magazine article from: Food Trade Review April 1, 2006 700+ words
...and Adaptations of Crops to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Zoltan Tuba Published 2005...indirectly impacts animal and human life. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen dramatically...and Adaptations of Crops to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide takes the data gleaned from...
- Ice Sheets Drive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels, Inverting Previous Ice-Age...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service July 24, 2006 700+ words
...for a loop. Scientists have since turned to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide as a possible explanation. Carbon dioxide concentrations...In those cases he found that ice sheets instead control atmospheric carbon dioxide and drive feedbacks that amplify ice growth and...
- A 650,000-year high.(atmospheric carbon dioxide)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Environment January 1, 2006 700+ words
...back 440,000 years. The EPICA team's expansion of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane records--encompassing two full...The analysis highlights the fact that today's rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, at 380 parts per million by volume...
- Exploring energy technology substitution for reducing atmospheric carbon...
- Magazine article from: The Energy Journal Knapp, Karl E. April 1, 1999 700+ words
...Wigley, 1994) was used to estimate the corresponding atmospheric carbon concentration trajectories. The purpose of the exercise...Base Case cumulative carbon emission projection to 2060. Atmospheric carbon accumulation is slowed, but concentrations are not stabilized...
- U.S. researchers use fossilized algae to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide
- News wire article from: Xinhua News Agency October 11, 2009 700+ words
...researchers use fossilized algae to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 (Xinhua...that has allowed scientists to measure historic atmospheric carbon dioxide levels back only 800,000 years. The...
- Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and weed populations in glyphosate treated...
- Magazine article from: Crop Science Ziska, Lewis H. Goins, Ernie W. May 1, 2006 700+ words
ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE concentration has shown an increase of about 21% from 315 to 379 [micro]mol [mol.sup.-1] since the late 1950s...
- Accelerated rise in CO(subscript 2). (atmospheric carbon dioxide)
- Magazine article from: Science News August 25, 1990 700+ words
...Tans of NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. The current concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide measures about 350 ppm. The rise stems primarily from fossil-fuel burning and tropical deforestation...
- Ocean Varies in Ability to Sequester Atmospheric Carbon, Scientists Report.
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service April 26, 2007 700+ words
...of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The amount of atmospheric carbon that the ocean can sequester varies greatly depending on location, according to 17 scientists who have...