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Comment Re:Unsurprising results? (Score 1) 190

Lol, I dont even smoke the stuff and I was pointing out industrial Hemp.

I also do not believe that it is right to ban a plant because some people smoke it. It is their life, their body, and their choice. Ignoring the science behind the plant is just stupid. I know it is as political as AGW but lets look at the real science and leave the religion out of it.

Comment Re:Unsurprising results? (Score 1) 190

The inconsistency between observed
and simulated global warming is even more
striking for temperature trends computed
over the past fifteen years (1998–2012).
For this period, the observed trend of
0.05 ± 0.08 C per decade is more than four
times smaller than the average simulated
trend of 0.21 ± 0.03 C per decade

Published paper "Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years" Published in
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | VOL 3 | SEPTEMBER 2013

Comment Re:Ordovician [Re:what a waste of money] (Score 3, Interesting) 190

Wait, doesn't your rebuttal show that the earth's temperature will not spiral out of control leading to the death and destruction predicted? :P

To be honest you make great points for the view that we are really in a geologic cold period and global warming is just returning us to average temperatures for geologic time frames.

Comment Re: Unsurprising results? (Score 1) 190

That right, nobody burns hemp. Marijuana yes, but industrial hemp is no good for smoking.

Instead you make oil from the seeds that you can use for cooking and can even turn into biodiesel.
You can make paper, cloth, shoes, rope, etc, etc, etc from the plant locking up the carbon and making it into useful products.

Comment Re:Unsurprising results? (Score 1) 190

For instance, we know that forests and the ocean absorb CO2, but we probably don't know which plants are the most efficient at doing so.

I hate to break it to you but we do know what plants are the most efficient. Hemp sequesters 22 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare. It is one of the top plants for sequestering CO2. I would also note that if you overlay the years that HEMP was produced as a cash crop in the US with the rise and fall of CO2 you will find they line up, including the increased production during WW2.

Comment Re:It's about time (Score 1) 547

4) CO2 absorbed energy from IR. Falsifiable, and tested.
5) CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing. Falsifiable, and tested.

Well, yes but there is a limit to #4 and #5 I question to some extent.

So here is an experiment for you. Take a sealed room and add CO2 tell the concentration reaches 1500ppm, Add 2kw of Lighting and fill the room with plants. You will learn a few things, #1 the temperature does not increase much (.1c) #2 the plants grow much faster and larger, #3 The 1500ppm of CO2 is dropped to less than 200ppm in 48 hours, #4 You can breath just fine at 1500ppm of CO2.

Botanists and Weed growers have been augmenting CO2 in grows for years, It is common to bring the environment up to 1500ppm to increase plant growth.

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