http://www.physorg.com/news86677664.html

Everytime I read a "story" on the causes of "global warming", I often wonder how much chemistry "environmentalists" have studied. If you want to do something meaningful about the contribution that burning of forestlands contributes to the "carbon footprint" and greenhouse gases, then we need to immediately string long hoses into Canada and Alaska to prevent the source 95% of the tonnage of emissions those forestlands create on Earth when lightning strikes set off those fires.

By the way, you"d better be careful how much tonnage of these carbon emissions you reduce or you"ll create drought conditions in places we"ve never seen drought before, because in every drop of rain that falls to the earth is a tiny speck of dust around which moisture condensed to produce rainfall. If we don"t have these carbon footprint emissions we will all starve because without airborne moisture condensing around carbon emissions the Amazon basin would disappear from lack of rainfall & so would our food supply.

I live in Brazil. If this country continues to expand it's cattle industy, just the bovine gases alone would cause global warming!

Pauldentier,
Rain does not condense on CO2. Humans reducing much larger (than CO2) particulates (the kind rain condenses onto) back to preindustrial levels will not cause rain to stop falling, as there are plenty of naturally occuring particulates.

Heccateus,

Where did I state that moisture condenses on CO2? Carbon footprint emissions are those tiny specks of dust we need in the the atmosphere for for condensation of moisture for the creation of rainfall. How much chemistry did you have in college that you don't know the difference between a carbon emission and a gas?

Isn't it a great testament to the screeching of wacko environmentalists that you will glom on to some tiny point, in which you are in error, as a technique to discredit the factual basis of the point I'm making. Do you know what color the sky would be if 50% of carbon emissions (remember, not talking about CO2) were eliminated from the atmosphere? I'll give you a hint Hec, it won't be blue.......