Asian financial Predictions: End of the World?

**kiwiling** · 1st January 2012 02:05

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

what was supposed to kill off the plants again?

Humans are replacing plants with animals and concrete...which produce more CO2

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

too much CO2??

Humans and animals need oxygen...and the problems are starting in the oceans...just check the website again...BTW it is the Australian ABC...not a left wing loony bunch...
Crude - the incredible journey of oil - Broadband edition - ABC Science

**Cthulhu** · 1st January 2012 02:40

Originally Posted by kiwiling

Humans are replacing plants with animals and concrete...which produce more CO2

You don't seem to have a firm grasp on the amount of plant life, and its distribution throughout the global ecosystem, do you?

**zeusbheld** · 1st January 2012 09:15

Originally Posted by kiwiling

Humans are replacing plants with animals and concrete...which produce more CO2

sorry to get all science-y, but what gas to plants need for photosynthesis? remind me please.

**bewildered wanderer** · 1st January 2012 11:47

don't wanna get into so some stupid debate, but, here i go... if asteroids/ice ages/mega volcanic eruptions didn't do the trick, a bit of CO2 ain't gonna do it either... remember, Precambrian was full of CO2 and little to no oxygen, which seemed to good for getting use here today

and hell, if it kills 99% of humans, that aint a bad thing, necessarily

**Papa** · 1st January 2012 12:12

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

Actually, I really wish we'd run out of oil already - its the only way people will pull their heads out of their asses and switch to renewable fuel, like alcohols.

You and many other environmentalists may dream of returning to the use of whale oil. It won't happen. Get over it.

**zeusbheld** · 1st January 2012 13:41

Originally Posted by Papa

You and many other environmentalists may dream of returning to the use of whale oil.

the same environmentalists who join organizations like Greenpeace to try to save the whales? interesting delusion.

**Cthulhu** · 1st January 2012 15:13

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

the same environmentalists who join organizations like Greenpeace to try to save the whales? interesting delusion.

Excellent!

Originally Posted by Papa

You and many other environmentalists may dream of returning to the use of whale oil. It won't happen. Get over it.

I think it's starting to become pretty obvious who this is - we have another "cleanup in aisle multinick" coming up, I think.

(well, not really, it's all "rough and tumble", after all)

**zeusbheld** · 1st January 2012 20:52

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

I think it's starting to become pretty obvious who this is

who?

i doubt it's Nuckinfutz. Nuckinfutz has some similar views, but more of a sense of humor and is less... surreal. Jonah! maybe?

**kiwiling** · 2nd January 2012 01:04

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

You don't seem to have a firm grasp on the amount of plant life, and its distribution throughout the global ecosystem, do you?

Forest clearing and marine pollution are reducing the oxygen producers...do you you dispute that...and back to the OP...financial calamity and global warming are already connected

**Cthulhu** · 2nd January 2012 02:20

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

i doubt it's Nuckinfutz.

Nope.

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

Jonah! maybe?

Nope.

... and neither of those two are primary identities anyway.

I really wish the mods would be better at identifying multinicks, but I guess that's not their job, really. Either way, these kind of nicks are just providing more clicks and views, so it's all good, as far as AF is concerned :-)

**zeusbheld** · 2nd January 2012 08:50

Originally Posted by kiwiling

Forest clearing and marine pollution are reducing the oxygen producers...do you you dispute that...and back to the OP...financial calamity and global warming are already connected

so again, what gas do plants use for photosynthesis? will more of it make the environment more favorable to plants, or less?

**buddahas** · 2nd January 2012 08:54

I always thought Papa was Papa.

**Cthulhu** · 2nd January 2012 13:25

Always seemed like a compound nick, on loan to several nutcases. Lately it's obvious 'he' has been used consistently by someone else.

**kiwiling** · 2nd January 2012 14:18

Originally Posted by Cthulhu

I really wish the mods would be better at identifying multinicks

I am in the Ruaridh fan club...sorry

---Update---

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

so again, what gas do plants use for photosynthesis?

CO2

Originally Posted by zeusbheld

will more of it make the environment more favorable to plants, or less?

Only to C4 carbon pathway plants (tropical grasses like corn and sugar cane) but not C3 plants...but the problem is production of oxygen...and healthier C4 plants don't replace the oxygen production in the oceans or rainforests