Comments on: OK, Maybe I Was Serious http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mesa Econoguy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html/comment-page-1#comment-6957 Mesa Econoguy Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:03:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html#comment-6957 <p>I was completely serious.</p> <p>Update – more trees about to be used:</p> <p>coaching.typepad.com/espresso_pundit/<br /> 2007/08/tribune-will-be.html<br /> </p> I was completely serious.

Update – more trees about to be used:

coaching.typepad.com/espresso_pundit/
2007/08/tribune-will-be.html

]]> By: la petite chou chou http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html/comment-page-1#comment-6956 la petite chou chou Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:09:45 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html#comment-6956 <p>You all seem very sarcastic.</p> <p>It is true, though, that growth rate has a positive impact on CO2 uptake by the tree. Younger trees are better at photosynthesizing than older trees because the older they are, the less they are growing.</p> <p>I've also used the "trees are the only renewable resource" argument on environmentalists. But they really don't care. *shrug* </p> You all seem very sarcastic.

It is true, though, that growth rate has a positive impact on CO2 uptake by the tree. Younger trees are better at photosynthesizing than older trees because the older they are, the less they are growing.

I’ve also used the “trees are the only renewable resource” argument on environmentalists. But they really don’t care. *shrug*

]]> By: Mesa EconoGuy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html/comment-page-1#comment-6955 Mesa EconoGuy Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:28:47 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html#comment-6955 <p>We need to start building skyscrapers out of wood (to reduce concrete, steel, and plastic use). When they burn down, the carbon released will be easily absorbed by the now-younger-average-age forests (since we’re replanting rapidly), which in turn will provide us with even more wood, because we’re planting more forests, which will absorb the near total combustion of Paris, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Chicago, and every other major city about once every 4-5 years, because we’re now building everything out of wood.</p> <p>This is known as green-friendly urban renewal planning.<br /> </p> We need to start building skyscrapers out of wood (to reduce concrete, steel, and plastic use). When they burn down, the carbon released will be easily absorbed by the now-younger-average-age forests (since we’re replanting rapidly), which in turn will provide us with even more wood, because we’re planting more forests, which will absorb the near total combustion of Paris, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Chicago, and every other major city about once every 4-5 years, because we’re now building everything out of wood.

This is known as green-friendly urban renewal planning.

]]> By: GeologyJoe http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html/comment-page-1#comment-6954 GeologyJoe Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:31:19 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html#comment-6954 <p>Wood is Good.</p> Wood is Good.

]]> By: Ed on West Slope http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html/comment-page-1#comment-6953 Ed on West Slope Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:00:12 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html#comment-6953 <p>Build large bridges over large rivers ... out of wood?<br /> Put population limits on Cows, Moose, little Japanese kids in commercials??</p> <p>Better yet, Suck up to the task, start getting proper data, throw out the garbage and take the 15 to 40 years to really learn what we talking about. If I were to practice engineering in as sloppy a manner that AGW is thrown about, I believe I should expect a charge of incompetence to be thrown my way and I would have no good defense.</p> Build large bridges over large rivers … out of wood?
Put population limits on Cows, Moose, little Japanese kids in commercials??

Better yet, Suck up to the task, start getting proper data, throw out the garbage and take the 15 to 40 years to really learn what we talking about. If I were to practice engineering in as sloppy a manner that AGW is thrown about, I believe I should expect a charge of incompetence to be thrown my way and I would have no good defense.

]]> By: dicentra http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html/comment-page-1#comment-6952 dicentra Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:45:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/08/ok-maybe-i-was.html#comment-6952 <p>So... when I print off tons of paper at work and toss it in the landfill, I'm both sequestering CO2 AND encouraging the paper industry to plant more trees, who inhale C02 like nobody's business.</p> <p>Wow, this AGW stuff just keeps getting better and better.</p> <p>But here's my question: if we succeed in sucking enough C02 out of the atmosphere so the climate cools, will we be encouraged to drive more SUVs, rip the insulation out of our houses, and leave the door open in the winter so that we do, in fact, heat the whole d@^n outdoors, like our fathers warned us not to?</p> So… when I print off tons of paper at work and toss it in the landfill, I’m both sequestering CO2 AND encouraging the paper industry to plant more trees, who inhale C02 like nobody’s business.

Wow, this AGW stuff just keeps getting better and better.

But here’s my question: if we succeed in sucking enough C02 out of the atmosphere so the climate cools, will we be encouraged to drive more SUVs, rip the insulation out of our houses, and leave the door open in the winter so that we do, in fact, heat the whole d@^n outdoors, like our fathers warned us not to?

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