On 4/22/2010 6:36 PM, LDosser wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:29:13 -0700, the infamous "LDosser"
scrawled the following:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On 21 Apr 2010 17:04:46 GMT, the infamous (Scott
Lurndal) scrawled the following:

"LDosser" writes:
"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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One year ago the temp reached 100F.

Today was a struggle to reach the high 60F's.

A Spring winter storm, more like a late Winter storm is coming in
off
the
Pacific.

The ski resorts are loving it, they expect to be open at least thru
June.

So, "Throw another log on the fire, .................."


Lew

Have you considered what that wood fire will contribute to Global
Warming?
;-)


If anything, the particulate matter in the wood smoke will cool the
planet.

As for CO2, there is no net gain in CO2 from burning firewood,
since the
CO2 in the firewood was recently (within a few decades, usually) in
the
atmosphere. Firewood is 'carbon neutral', unlike fossil fuels like
coal
and oil.

Crikey, Scott. BUY a braincell.

Or rent a humor gene ...

I love these "carbon neutral" statements about the forms of heating
which put out up to 400 times the pollution/CO2 than other forms do.
Have you ever seen a quiet valley where there are a dozen home fires
going? It's inundated with smoke so your visibility is cut to the
next house, if you're close enough. I've driven through Merlin, OR
and wondered about the dense fog until I got past the ONE fireplace
which had smoked out the entire freakin' town! I drove through several
miles of it and could smell the smoke, but couldn't see any fireplaces
until then. Two of my neighbors have pellet stoves, and even they're
nasty when you're standing downwind of 'em. Uckfay Oodway Iresfay.

You seen a grass burning?

Smoke isn't the problem. It can be a problem locally but it's
particulates and if they get high enough and stay high enough they may
actually help. It's CO2 that's believed to be the problem, and it's
believed that the reason it's a problem is that humans are rapidly
releasing CO2 that was stored over tens of millions of years. So wood
burning, which releases CO2 that would be released in the next couple or
centuries anyway and which will be resorbed by the next generation of
trees, is not a significant part of the problem.

Of course that assumes that anthropogenic global warming is a real
phenomenon and that it's the huge problem that the fear industry makes
it out to be.