Does this epitomize the global warming movement?

Question

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/pinetree.htm

Am I the only one shaking his head in disbelief?

Answer 1

I am, but only because neither you nor the OSU guy can do simple arithmetic.  

700,000 * 4 =         2,800,000

                         3,000,000,000

Gosh.  Huge effect.

Edit:  Hey, I've said before that the situation is essentially hopeless.  That doesn't mean I will deny the problem is critical or that the IPCC has the science pretty much dead-bang correct.  

So what was your point, since I missed it?  Were you saying that it is stupid to muck around with pine forests because the CO2 mitigation is too small (which suggests you think the problem is worth addressing, just not in this fashion (I might agree with this, except, as I said, the situation is hopeless anyway so might as well enjoy the ride for as long as it lasts (I call this the Louis XVI strategy)))?  Or are you laughing that the the "global warming movement" is attempting to mitigate things that will have no overall effect?  If it's the latter, then look to who funded the study.  EPRI has a pretty strong financial interest in deflecting cost away from coal-fired power plants, so they'll focus on anything, no matter how ludicrous.  In which case this isn't really the epitome of the idiocy of the global warming movement so much as how the fossil fuel industry will do anything to deflect attention away from themselves.  

See?  I can explain anything in terms of how bad Peabody Coal Company is.  

Have a nice day.

Answer 2

So you and this guy are saying that because "pine plantations don't retain carbon as well as hardwood or natural pine forests" and some people are planting them for other reasons, Global Warming is the environmentalist's fault?  No you aren't the only one, I'm certainly shaking my head in disbelief.

Answer 3

What epitomizes the warming movement is that no meaningful reductions in co2 emissions can be achieved without  nuclear energy, but the vast majority of them refuse to endorse it.  They have a concept of what the world should be, and they do not want to entertain any thoughts on other ways.

The sad part is that even though many of the top contributors on this board who support nuclear energy  are arguing against us because they think we would an obstacle to a solution.  But in the reality it is that the people who are shouting the "world is coming to an end" and are apposing nuclear energy that is an obstacle to a solution. (If the AGW hypothesis is real)

Answer 4

If I throw a stick, will these GW fools go away ?

Answer 5

Now we can`t even plant a tree. Environmentalist need to find a life.