STOP RIGHT THERE. It's the fault of whaling.:dead:
What’s New? Harpooning whales speeds up global warming
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John D. Nier on <ABBR class=published title=2010-03-01>March 1, 2010</ABBR>
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Just when you think the believers of AGW can’t possibly come up with anything sillier they prove you wrong. Now whaling speeds up climate change! Yes you heard right…it’s the whales!! When they yell “thar she blows” nowadays, it doesn’t refer to the blowhole on the whale it refers to the B.S epidemic surrounding AGW. What’s that noise I hear in the background? Oh, just Captain Ahab laughing away.
UPI.com has the scoop:
A century of commercial whaling has released around 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — that’s equivalent to burning more than 50,000 square miles of temperate forest or 128,000 large sport-utility vehicles driving for 100 years.
Were I this guy I’d have gone into hiding, but no, he actually goes public with it…
Those are the findings of a study by U.S. scientists from the Gulf of Maine
ResearchInstitute unveiled by Andrew Pershing from the University of Maine at the Ocean Sciences meeting this week in Portland, Ore.
I’m not a fan of whaling but jeeze….they don’t all die of natural causes sooner or later? I mean it’s not like there have been more whales created just for whalers to kill….there’s still the same amount of whales in our oceans regardess…in fact, I’d put forth that whaling may have reduced carbon as killing whales before the end of their life span probably reduced their reproduction levels. But he he aruges this….
When a whale dies of natural causes, its body sinks to the seabed, transporting the carbon stored in it to the deep sea, away from the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Harpooning one, however, can release the carbon directly into the atmosphere, thus intensifying climate change.
What about beached whales? They don’t sink! Also, let me see, we’re talking millions of years, hundreds of thousands of years, thousands of years….so what is the big difference if the carbon goes directly into the atmosphere now or a few hundred years later? Not a long period of time considering how old the earth is.
So, now he wants to charge carbon credits for whaling even though…
The International Whaling Commission in 1986 introduced a moratorium on commercial whaling so that stocks might recover but whaling remains controversial.
Were I a citizen of Maine I’d be demanding an investigation of this guy. I can’t even fathom what I’m going to hear next.