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 Global warming is a unique geological event, more akin to the scale of nuclear war than saving the spotted owl. So why are we treating it as if it is a spotted owl? -- Sheril R. Kirshenbaum  Global warming is a unique geological event, more akin to the scale of nuclear war than saving the spotted owl. So why are we treating it as if it is a spotted owl? -- Sheril R. Kirshenbaum 
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 +The seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> shows that the lifetime of a CO<sub>2</sub> molecule in the air before it is exchanged with another in the land biosphere is about 12 years. Therefore if the trees could simply be persuaded to drop diamonds instead of leaves, repairing the damage to the atmosphere could be fast, I suppose. -- http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/freeman-dysons-selective-vision/
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   * http://variablemedia.net/   * http://variablemedia.net/
   * The 'Princeton Wedges" and Carbon Mitigation Initiative > http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/news/CMIinBrief.pdf   * The 'Princeton Wedges" and Carbon Mitigation Initiative > http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/news/CMIinBrief.pdf
 +  * The "Keeling Graph" > [[wp>Keeling_Curve]]
  
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   * http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html   * http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hawk_small.html
   * http://carbonnation.org/   * http://carbonnation.org/
 +  * http://biopresence.com
  
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