Carbon Reservoirs

[sunsettommy]

From JamesPHogan.com

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In the section entitled "Computer Games and Global Warming" in Kicking the Sacred Cow (http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/sacred/), I mentioned that all the hysteria over carbon dioxide is a bit silly, since around 95% of the 30<SUP>o</SUP>C or so warming of Earth's atmosphere above what it would otherwise be at this distance from the Sun is due to water vapor (except in computer simulations, where you can make it what you want). But you can't tax it or blame your favorite villains. CO<SUB>2</SUB> makes up about 0.03% of the atmosphere, compared to anywhere from 0.5 to 4% for water vapor, and water vapor is twice as efficient as a heat absorber. Man-made CO<SUB>2</SUB> contributes something like 2% of the total -- in other words, 2% of 0.03%, which is 0.000006 -- of the 5% warming which was due to CO<SUB>2</SUB> to begin with.

More here,

http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/content/020206.shtml

[sunsettommy]

From the link:


The March 1, 2005 issue of Benny Peiser's newsletter CCNet (see above link to variations in the Sun's output) carried an item describing the discovery in 1988 by the American researcher Sally Chisolm of a single celled oceanic organism which she called prochlorococcus. Every liter of ocean in the first 200 meters of depth contains about 20 million of them. They absorb CO<SUB>2</SUB> and combine the carbon into a form that feeds plankton, which in turn feeds fish and supports marine life in general, in the process absorbing more carbon than all of the world's forests put together. Carbon dioxide is, of course, the major plant food. It seems, then, that the planet is set up such that carbon is absorbed into enormous reservoirs when the climate is cool and unable to support a rich biosphere, and released back into the atmosphere to expand the base of the food chain when conditions improve.


So much to learn about the Carbon cycle.

[DeclinetoState]

Hogan may be a kook:


In recent years, however, Hogan's preferred theories have tended towards those widely considered "fringe" or pseudoscientific (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience). He is a serious proponent of Immanuel Velikovsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky)'s version of catastrophism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophism), of Intelligent Design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Design) over Darwinism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism), and of the theory that AIDS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS) is caused by pharmaceutical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical) use rather than HIV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV) (see AIDS reappraisal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_reappraisal)). While such theories may seem to contradict his views on scientific rationality, they are consistent with the view that scientific theories should not be accepted simply because they are widely held (see, for instance, argument from authority (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority)). Hogan has also espoused the idea that the Holocaust didn't happen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial), writing that he finds the work of Arthur Butz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Butz) and Mark Weber (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Weber&action=edit) to be "more scholarly, scientific, and convincing than what the history written by the victors says."<SUP class=reference id=_ref-0>[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Hogan_%28writer%29#_note-0)</SUP>


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Hogan_%28writer%29

[PaulRevere]

a single celled oceanic organism which she called prochlorococcus. Every liter of ocean in the first 200 meters of depth contains about 20 million of them. They absorb CO<SUB>2</SUB> and combine the carbon into a form that feeds plankton, which in turn feeds fish and supports marine life in general, in the process absorbing more carbon than all of the world's forests put together.
Unfortunately, "save the prochlorococcus!" just doesn't have a sexy ring to it.

[Timberwolf]

Hogan may be a kook:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Hogan_%28writer%29
Well, he's in VERY good company...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_reappraisal#The_AIDS_dissident_community
A brief history


1982: The Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HEAL&action=edit)) was founded in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) and became the most prominent activist organization in the dissident movement. Other groups followed, including Alive and Well[1] (http://www.aliveandwell.org/). All these groups have openly challenged aspects of the HIV theory.
1984: Casper Schmidt (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casper_Schmidt&action=edit) publishes ‘’The Group-Fantasy Origins of AIDS (http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/csfantasy.htm)’’ in the ‘’Journal of Psychohistory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory)’’ [2] (http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/01_journal.html). He posits that AIDS is an example of "epidemic hysteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epidemic_hysteria&action=edit)" in which groups of people are subconsciously acting out social conflicts, and compares it to documented cases of epidemic hysteria in the past, which were mistakenly thought to be infectious.
1987: Peter Duesberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg) questions HIV in his first major paper ‘’Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens: Expectations and Reality (http://duesberg.com/papers/ch1.html)’’ published in the journal Cancer Research (http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/). This publication coincided with the start of major public health (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health) campaigns and the promotion of AZT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZT) as a treatment.
1988: Perth Group (http://theperthgroup.com|the/), led by Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_Papadopulos-Eleopulos), published their first peer-reviewed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review) article questioning aspects of the mainstream ideas about HIV and AIDS. They concluded that there is "no compelling reason for preferring the viral hypothesis of AIDS to one based on the activity of oxidising agents" (Medical Hypotheses (1988) 25: 151-162; copy (http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/epmedhypo.htm)).
1990: Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein published his first peer-reviewed article on his objections against the mainstream view of AIDS and HIV titled: Do we know the the cause(s) of AIDS? (Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (1990) 33:480-500; copy (http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/rrbdowe.htm)).
1991: The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_for_the_Scientific_Reappraisal_of_the_HIV-AIDS_Hypothesis), twelve scientists, researchers, and doctors, submitted a short letter to various journals. It was published 4 years later in the journal Science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_%28journal%29) (Baumann et al., 1995).[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AIDS_reappraisal&action=edit&section=2)]
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The AIDS dissident community

People critical to the mainstream view of AIDS include HIV diagnosed persons, government employees, scientists, doctors, and activists in several countries. Some notable scientists have joined their ranks, including [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize"]Nobel Prize (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/) winners Kary Mullis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis) (inventor of PCR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR), used for the development of the viral load (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_load) test) and Walter Gilbert, as well as Peter Duesberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg) (who first isolated a cancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer) gene), Dr. David Rasnick (has nine patents on Protease inhibitors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease_inhibitor_%28pharmacology%29), a drug used for the treatment of HIV diagnosed) and Dr. Rodney Richards (one of the inventors of the original HIV antibody tests (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test)).
The AIDS reappraisal movement is calling for the reappraisal of AIDS through the VirusMyth (http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/group.htm) website.

[DesertFox]

"save the prochlorococcus!" just doesn't have a sexy ring to it.Easily fixed:

Save the cock!

[sunsettommy]

Declineto rebut the actual posted article wishes to attack the writer personally instead.

He he he.

Do you realize what you did?

I am well aware of Hogans positions on his website.I have read his many excellent sci-fiction books and have been reading his website for a couple of years.

You actually Declinetostate a rebuttal on the posted article about Carbon reservoirs.

Hehehe.....