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21 January 2007, 10:23 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:32 PM
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You know all this "carbon offsetting" crap in the media? it's all bollox anyway! Trees don't permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere or even the carbon cycle - they only delay its return to the cycle for somewhere between 50 and 500 years. In order to carbon offset you would have to grow a tree, then embed it within sediment upon its death. Even that isn't permanent, as fossil fuels show. 
21 January 2007, 10:35 PM
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You know all this "carbon offsetting" crap in the media? it's all bollox anyway! Trees don't permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere or even the carbon cycle - they only delay its return to the cycle for somewhere between 50 and 500 years. In order to carbon offset you would have to grow a tree, then embed it within sediment upon its death. Even that isn't permanent, as fossil fuels show.
Doesn't stop them into thinking they can fool us, to get more tax
21 January 2007, 10:35 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:36 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:40 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:40 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:41 PM
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Yep! Nothing like a bit of retraining if it means cheap labour especially as Labour have fcuked up the economy with increasing inflation and interst rates meaning businesses will be looking for as cheap labour as possible just to keep costs down.
21 January 2007, 10:41 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:45 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:48 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:50 PM
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21 January 2007, 10:51 PM
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Eh? Think you need to re read what I said. All the time the Government forces up the cost of manufacturing the more desperate companies will become to cut costs to cover the increase in interest rates and cheap labour which is readily available will be high on the agenda.
21 January 2007, 10:52 PM
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Dont know if were planting as many trees as are cut down, i doubt it. However the uptake of CO2 by the diatoms in the seas never seems to be taken into account . There are clearly localised consequences of this 'global warming' but how much is due to our personall emissions is very circumspect id suggest ....**** this carbon offseting ****e if the governments were serious theyd at least start with the airline company taxation
21 January 2007, 10:56 PM
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There is far more C02 added to the atmosphere by geological processes such as erosion of carbonate rocks and volcanism than by human production. What one has to worry about is that erosion is accelerated by global warming - in other words, it's a positive feedback process which will accelerate exponentially if it gets a hold. 
21 January 2007, 11:07 PM
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The climate has always been changing - drought in egypt did for the pharoahs thousands of years ago, the ice age 10000 years ago when you could walk across the channel, 1000 years ago vikings were growing crops in greenland in places now under feet of ice. The climate is constantly changing, but I admit in a brilliant piece of deception, they are using this fact to justify taxes and behaviour modification. Well f*** em I say. In fact, if you are interested, try this, a Professor from Cambridge identifying solar activity as the probable cause of recent warming. As for the consensus of scientists rubbish, try this, 17000 scientists standing up to say that "man made factors are causing global warming" is a lie
21 January 2007, 11:08 PM
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There is far more C02 added to the atmosphere by geological processes such as erosion of carbonate rocks and volcanism than by human production. What one has to worry about is that erosion is accelerated by global warming - in other words, it's a positive feedback process which will accelerate exponentially if it gets a hold.
Actually if you wanted to get philosophical about it you could argue (successfully) that the evolution of man is simply part of that cycle and has probably been repeated a number of times in the past with different species.
21 January 2007, 11:12 PM
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So there you go, it's all part of the natural cycle nothing to do with us.
Actually if you wanted to get philosophical about it you could argue (successfully) that the evolution of man is simply part of that cycle and has probably been repeated a number of times in the past with different species.
Actually if you wanted to get philosophical about it you could argue (successfully) that the evolution of man is simply part of that cycle and has probably been repeated a number of times in the past with different species.
You know what, if it was said that having sex caused problems for the planet, I bet they would put little boxes in our houses, just to record activity. For tax purposes, of course
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So there you go, it's all part of the natural cycle nothing to do with us.
Actually if you wanted to get philosophical about it you could argue (successfully) that the evolution of man is simply part of that cycle and has probably been repeated a number of times in the past with different species.
Actually if you wanted to get philosophical about it you could argue (successfully) that the evolution of man is simply part of that cycle and has probably been repeated a number of times in the past with different species.
Sorry, UB.
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