[Gasification] CO2 aka more global warming

[Richard Haard]

Frank

A colleague of mine was a scientist on that tanker that was escorted  
thru the NW passage by ice breakers. He is an algae specialist who  
was hired to study the effect of clearing a passage in the ice on the  
communities of algae that form the base of the marine food chain on  
the underside of the ice.

The images he showed us were of a supertanker in the ice, crews of  
people walking around and divers with scuba going under the ice.

Impacts of ice cover destruction by ships passing through here is now  
a mute point. What has happened this year to the ice cover in the  
arctic sea is now '100 years ahead of schedule, having dropped 22 %  
below the previous minimum low and it may completely disappear by  
2013' This article comparing satellite views with IPCC predictions  
was released September 8. Take a look at this yourself, this is real.

http://www.carbonequity.info/docs/arctic.html

I really do not understand why it is necessary to debate in this  
forum on carbon neutral technology what is accepted as a fact and a  
threat to our lives as the technology on this forum mitigates for the  
effects of CO2 pollution. Why then even bother with biomass and  
instead use our plentiful coal resources for future energy?

For a collection of counter arguments to climate change deniers  here  
is  a link to a collection of counter arguments by Coby Beck ' How to  
talk to a climate skeptic < http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics >

Tell me is the root of your argument all about your corporate and  
personal income tax rate or is it the concern about climate change  
mitigation slowing economic growth? This is a bit of a puzzle to me  
and I would love to learn just why it is necessary to debate the  
existence of the obvious on this forum, a forum that is oriented to  
technology for mitigation of the effects of burning fossil fuels.

Rich H

On Oct 13, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Katahdin Energy Works wrote:

>
> Also lost is the  historical perspective; yet another kind of  
> balance....i.e
> I remember when the N.W. passage opened in the sixties and  
> speculation over
> who 'owned' it filled the papers until it froze up. When I read the  
> latest