RE: [asa] Global Warming on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Venus, ...?

At 03:02 PM 6/25/2006, Debbie Mann wrote:
>It is interesting.
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>... I still think that we need more forests and less automobile
>emmissions. Or maybe we could develop great algae farms. Maybe they
>could be the soybeans of the future and we could have miles of slimy
>looking seas pumping oxygen into the atmosphere while devouring
>great clouds of carbon dioxide? ...

@ Really???

Scientists question trees' role in global warming January 12, 2006. 6:00am
European scientists could turn climate science on its head after
suggesting trees may contribiute greenhouse gases. (ABC TV)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1545977.htm

BBC News Scientists in Germany have discovered that ordinary plants
produce significant amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas
which helps trap the sun's energy in the atmosphere.

...The findings, reported in the journal Nature, have been described
as "startling", and may force a rethink of the role played by forests
in holding back the pace of global warming. To their amazement,
the scientists found that all the textbooks written on the
biochemistry of plants had apparently overlooked the fact that
methane is produced by a range of plants even when there is plenty of
oxygen. The amount of the gas produced increased when the air was
warmer, and when there was more sunlight. The paper estimates that
this unexplained phenomenon could account for 10-30% of the world's
methane emissions. The possible implications are set out in Nature
by David Lowe of New Zealand's National Institute of Water and
Atmospheric Research, who writes: "We now have the spectre that new
forests might increase greenhouse warming through methane emissions
rather than decrease it by sequestering carbon dioxide." ...If this
turned out to be true, it would have major implications for the rules
of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which allows countries and
companies to offset emissions from the burning of fossil fuels like
coal and oil by funding the planting of new forests or the
restoration of deforested areas
.." Continue: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4604332.stm

  ~ Janice :)

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>[mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On Behalf Of Janice Matchett
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>Subject: [asa] Global Warming on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Venus, ...?
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>I found this pretty interesting. ~ Janice
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>Current Science and Technology Center Global Warming on
>Mars? http://www.mos.org/cst-archive/article/80/9.html
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>Global warming on Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Venus, Mars, Triton, Enceladus?
>http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/05/global-warming-on-jupiter.html
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>Global warming on Pluto?
>Space.com http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_seasons_030709.html
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>Dramatic increase in sales of a certain product coincide with
>increase in global warming:
>http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/06/01/feminism-destroying-the-planet/
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Received on Sun Jun 25 18:52:21 2006