CO2 and evolution (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Omaha NE, Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 23:52 @ David Turell

when by your own logic--we aren't even in a new paradigm? A person that could have that kind of predictive power would be rich beyond his wildest dreams!

Who are you (or Lomborg) to put an arbitrary limit on human ingenuity?

The human mind is boundless!

You misunderstand me. The Earth is not immediately doomed, if ever. I'm for development of green approaches, just not at breakneck speed. Ethanol in gas is just one example of complete stupidity, but giving a show of 'concern'. Al Gore and climate panic are just another example of current environmentalism. And what happened to the last major panic, acid rain? It is still raining, and we in Texas welcome it.

I joke all the time about how this part of the country would turn subtropical; hardly misfortune.

But the ethanol thing rankles me a bit: CORN-produced ethanol is a bad path--the prices of food were a result of this. However, that new "artificial life" just created this year is precisely the kind of thing that can allow mass-production of ethanol as soon as we transfer in the genes from termites that allow them to eat cellulose. From watching the research from IA State, maybe 10 years.

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