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#27 REDACTED, Posted: Oct 14 2009 at 6:13 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Of course I'm betting Ashes "professor" doesn't really care about the location of the sensors being used to determine temperature. I wonder how he's going to reconcile the fact that global temperatures havn't changed more than 5 degrees, one way or the other, in the last 100yrs.

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You know ages ago, on the Planet Earth series, David Attenborough narrated that the forests of the world are capable of photosynthesising more carbon dioxide than we could ever produce.

Did he? I saw that series and don't remember him saying that.

It's been a while since I watched it, I'll try and find the clip.

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You know ages ago, on the Planet Earth series, David Attenborough narrated that the forests of the world are capable of photosynthesising more carbon dioxide than we could ever produce.

Did he? I saw that series and don't remember him saying that.

It's been a while since I watched it, I'll try and find the clip.

Given that Planet Earth had a lengthy segment dedicated to some starving polar bear trapped out at sea due to unseasonal ice melt and then starving to death after failing to kill a walrus in its weakened state and then dedicated much of the fifth disc to talking about humans and our effects on the planet, I sincerely doubt you're remembering the quote accurately.

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Jophiel wrote:

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Jophiel wrote:

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You know ages ago, on the Planet Earth series, David Attenborough narrated that the forests of the world are capable of photosynthesising more carbon dioxide than we could ever produce.

Did he? I saw that series and don't remember him saying that.

It's been a while since I watched it, I'll try and find the clip.

Given that Planet Earth had a lengthy segment dedicated to some starving polar bear trapped out at sea due to unseasonal ice melt and then starving to death after failing to kill a walrus in its weakened state and then dedicated much of the fifth disc to talking about humans and our effects on the planet, I sincerely doubt you're remembering the quote accurately.

I think what he probably remembers hearing is something to the effect of

http://www.greenfacts.org/en/forests/l-3/3-climate-change.htm#0p0 wrote:

Overall, the worldâ€™s forest ecosystems are estimated to store some 638 Gt (638 billion tonnes) of carbon, which is more than the amount of carbon in the entire atmosphere.

Not quite the same thing, but an easy misinterpretation.

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I figured either that or something like "More CO2 than we could ever breathe out" or some such. Not that it would mean a ton either way, Attenborough's a naturalist with an emphasis on zoology, not a climatologist.

Oh, and it seems Attenborough produced "The Truth About Climate Change" where he explains what made him a believer in anthropogenic climate change. So that makes his comment about trees even more unlikely.

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Jophiel wrote:

Goggy wrote:

Jophiel wrote:

Goggy wrote:

You know ages ago, on the Planet Earth series, David Attenborough narrated that the forests of the world are capable of photosynthesising more carbon dioxide than we could ever produce.

Did he? I saw that series and don't remember him saying that.

It's been a while since I watched it, I'll try and find the clip.

Given that Planet Earth had a lengthy segment dedicated to some starving polar bear trapped out at sea due to unseasonal ice melt and then starving to death after failing to kill a walrus in its weakened state and then dedicated much of the fifth disc to talking about humans and our effects on the planet, I sincerely doubt you're remembering the quote accurately.

Wait. That was in the Disney movie "Earth," and it was narrated by ~~Darth Vadar~~ James Earl Jones, not David Attenborough.

"Planet Earth" was the TV series with David Attenborough.

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I suspect they may have used the same footage. From the Wiki for Planet Earth:

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The sixth programme looks at the regions of the Arctic and Antarctica. The latter contains 90% of the world's ice, and stays largely deserted until the spring, when visitors arrive to harvest its waters. [...] A female polar bear and her two cubs head off across the ice to look for food. As the sun melts the ice, a glimpse of the Earth's potential future reveals a male polar bear that is unable to find a firm footing anywhere and has to resort to swimming â€” which it cannot do indefinitely. Its desperate need to eat brings it to a colony of walrus. Although it attacks repeatedly, the herd is successful in evading it by returning to the sea. Wounded and unable to feed, the bear will not survive. [...]

My comments about the series ending with bits about human's effect on the world might be conflating the series with The Life of Mammals since the Wiki for PE doesn't directly mention it (and I've never seen Planet Earth: the Future).

Edited, Oct 14th 2009 10:13am by Jophiel

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Jophiel wrote:

I suspect they may have used the same footage. From the Wiki for Planet Earth:

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The sixth programme looks at the regions of the Arctic and Antarctica. The latter contains 90% of the world's ice, and stays largely deserted until the spring, when visitors arrive to harvest its waters. [...] A female polar bear and her two cubs head off across the ice to look for food. As the sun melts the ice, a glimpse of the Earth's potential future reveals a male polar bear that is unable to find a firm footing anywhere and has to resort to swimming â€” which it cannot do indefinitely. Its desperate need to eat brings it to a colony of walrus. Although it attacks repeatedly, the herd is successful in evading it by returning to the sea. Wounded and unable to feed, the bear will not survive. [...]

My comments about the series ending with bits about human's effect on the world might be conflating the series with The Life of Mammals since the Wiki for PE doesn't directly mention it (and I've never seen Planet Earth: the Future).

Edited, Oct 14th 2009 10:13am by Jophiel

I did not know that.

I feel sort of silly paying to see the movie now, when I could've just Netflix'ed the series. Smiley: bah

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In fact, doesn't the movie also tell the story of a lost young elephant, separated in a dust storm?

I think they lifted the whole thing from the Planet Earth series.

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In fact, doesn't the movie also tell the story of a lost young elephant, separated in a dust storm?

I think they lifted the whole thing from the Planet Earth series.

You're not helping. Smiley: mad

#37 REDACTED, Posted: Oct 14 2009 at 11:01 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Tulip,

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Yeah, Belkira. You movie watching enviro-****!

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Yeah, Belkira. You movie watching enviro-****!

I shall change my name to Eva and make my husband grow a Hitler mustache. Smiley: glare

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Belkira the Tulip wrote:

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Yeah, Belkira. You movie watching enviro-****!

I shall change my name to Eva and make my husband grow a Hitler mustache. Smiley: glare

Eva Die Tulpe, sounds catchy.

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I went back and watched it again, I remembered it wrong.

Talking about the Tiaga forest, more trees than all the rain forests combined and they produce enough oxygen to replenish the worlds supply.

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Maybe we should just build a giant shade screen for the world. That's always a good way to escape the heat. If we used the Sun to power it, we could make it an AC instead.

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which is the number of CO2 molecules among every million air molecules.

Theres no such thing as an 'air molecule'.

Thats as far as I got....

An "air molecule" is a molecule nitrogen or oxygen. Basically everything that isn't CO2.

There are no such things as nitrogen or oxygen molecules either. Smiley: disappointed

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What the fuck are you talking about? O2 is an oxygen molecule, made up of two oxygen atoms.

I was referring to the fact that atoms are not molecules. O2 is dioxygen. O3 is ozone. N2, however, is called a nitrogen molecule. My bad.

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O2 is an oxygen molecule. Yes, even though it's called dioxygen.

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My astronomy professor blatantly said she was teaching us about climate change because it's such a hot-button issue. Smiley: laugh

She said it's the most important thing she's teaching us.

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Professor AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:

My astronomy professor blatantly said she was teaching us about climate change because it's such a hot-button issue. Smiley: laugh

She said it's the most important thing she's teaching us.

Your astronomy teacher is doing you a disservice by straying from the material the class is meant to cover. Smiley: frown

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BrownDuck wrote:

Professor AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:

My astronomy professor blatantly said she was teaching us about climate change because it's such a hot-button issue. Smiley: laugh

She said it's the most important thing she's teaching us.

Your astronomy teacher is doing you a disservice by straying from the material the class is meant to cover. Smiley: frown

She snuck it in during the bit about the terrestrial planets and their atmospheres. It only took an extra day.

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Some day, Ash is going to need to know about the Oort Cloud and is going to be fucked because his instructor wasted a day on Earth's climate change.

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