Olaf Rasmussen Wrote:
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> I didn't intend to start a political discourse on
> carbon dioxide and climate change. In a nutshell,
> the problem is not steady state carbon dioxide and
> water vapor, but the INCREASE in carbon dioxide
> from extracting long buried carbon and setting it
> free into the atmosphere. So elephants are good,
> as they consume and emit carbon in a closed loop,
> neither increasing nor decreasing atmospheric
> carbon content. The same goes for horses pulling
> railcars, or people for that matter, as long as
> they don't extract ancient fossilized carbon. Now
> we can go back to enjoy steam locomotives that by
> this time only emit the tiniest fraction of human
> fossil carbon release. As for the rest I would
> vote for nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, and
> other renewable energy sources (and more
> elephants).
I'll second that motion, Olaf -
Except for the vote for nuclear,* but especially the vote for {many} more Oliphaunts!!!
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Roosso
* I still remember Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. And SFAIK, it's still unclear as to what to do about nuclear waste.