On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:47:30 -0000, dennis@home
wrote:



"geoff" wrote in message
...
In message om,
"dennis@home" writes

If only the air travel theory was true. Then there would be a simple
cure for global warming - just stop flying. At least 99% (figure
plucked out of thin air as TFP is wont to do) of air travel is non
essential.

Incidentally one of the predictions of global warming has just shown
up:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...ding-article-a
rctic-methane-a-risk-it-would-be-unwise-to-ignore-6276207.html

Rubbish as usual.

No its not


The methane isn't trapped in the arctic ice.

There is a lot of methane generated by rotting vegetation in the arctic
tundra. As the ice melts, it is being released. Methane is, what, 74
times as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2?

Stupid boy

The concern is methyl hydrate you idiot!


Certainly what I was listening to the other day was about permafrost not
being so very permanent. And therefore allowing greater generation and
release of METHANE.

--
Rod