Originally Posted by BrentD, Prof
....that is just laughable. I'm sorry, but it is.

So predictable. Anything that might just possibly inconvenience those who are so self-centered in their ways....

....Did you know that one of the more interesting side effects of CO2 is that it fertilizes plants to the point that there is now about 2x as much biomass (where there are wild plants) than there used to be, preindustrial? Sounds good, eh? Sadly, there is not 2x as much nutrients in that vegetation. So there is a lot of it, but it is increasingly poor quality. So poor that many things (not subsidized cows of course), are having trouble eating enough to make it by. Animals far down the food chain are inarguably (for rational folk, not some of you irrats) are declining. Things like insects and other arthropods, birds, etc. This could be as much from having a tough time choking down enough grub to reproduce sufficiently, to the more traditionally suspected and indubitably guilty, pesticides, pestilence, drought, heat, habitat loss, etc....

....I am not nearly as optimistic as Jimmy, but I applaud him for it. It is not that we could not fix it, only that we WILL not fix it.

Carry on.
"Poor quality" vegitation? That seems like studies that come out of the kalifornia penal system, where they'd rather let their homeless camp toilets flush into the sea, than manage vegetation, right? I like your reference to "traditional" tales, if they don't trigger emotional responses, get a grant to write new tales, huh prof.

Ah, but I digress. Of course, it's laughable and self-centered. And, why not applaud Jimmy, we are not in this together are we prof, phds are in the game to create divides. Jimmy's probably a good guy, but you don't like him for the content of his character, just the color of his politcs?