June 7 2008

Lawrence Solomon

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/06/07/in-praise-of...

QUOTE: "Their 2004 study, and other more recent ones, point to the
warming of the planet and the presence of CO2, a gas indispensable to
plant life. CO2 is nature's fertilizer, bathing the biota with its
life-giving nutrients"

With less heat and less carbon dioxide, the planet could become less
hospitable and less green

GPP is way up. NPP is way up. To the surprise of those who have been
bearish on the planet, the data shows global production has been
steadily climbing to record levels, ones not seen since these
measurements began.

GPP is Gross Primary Production, a measure of the daily output of the
global biosphere -- the amount of new plant matter on land. NPP is Net
Primary Production, an annual tally of the globe's production. Biomass
is booming. The planet is the greenest it's been in decades, perhaps in
centuries.

"0ZBN0" <0ZBN0@do0od00.com> wrote

Warming? Fpr tje ;ast several years, you have been chattering mindlessly
about the earth cooling.

Make up your Mind... MMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOONNNNN

Meanwhile back here in the reality based communtiy..
Song Feng and colleagues at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln built a
climate model to simulate the way changes in sea surface temperature of a
few degrees in the Atlantic or Pacific can disrupt atmospheric circulation
over North America. Such shifts caused droughts such as the 1930s Dust Bowl,
which followed a cooling of the tropical Pacific.

The team found that the impact of these sea surface temperature changes
differs by season. The effects of a change in the Pacific would hit mainly
in winter: ocean cooling of 3