Drastic climate changes over the next 20 years.

[Laukev7]

Restin256 is right, plants breathe CO2 and reject O2, contrarily to animals. However, most other chemicals, including sulfates and nitrates, do damage vegetation because they form acids when dissolved in rain water. And while CO2 may not inflict direct damage to plants, it does harm them in the long run because of the greenhouse effect, which would cause the poles to melt and cool down the Conveyor Belt, which would be what would cause the global ice age, according to the article on Indymedia.

[Paladin9]

Actually, from what I understand plants breathe CO2 and produce O2 when there is sunlight, but at night it is the opposite. Then plants use O2 and produce CO2. This is what I remember from school.

[Refalm]

I just heard some scary shit on the radio this morning:

The report also contained a piece about The Netherlands.
Our country is under sealevel, and we have dykes to keep the water out. If the sealevel rises, the dykes begin to fill with water and eventually, the whole country (excluding Rotterdam, Texel, Utrecht, Limburg and parts of Gelderland (where I live) and North-Brabant) will be filled with water.
So expect Dutch people to move to countries like Belgium, UK and Germany in 30 years.

There's one good thing about this though. I'm going to live just 50 kilometres from the sea  

[Laukev7]

quote:  If the sealevel rises, the dykes begin to fill with water and eventually, the whole country (excluding Rotterdam, Texel, Utrecht, Limburg and parts of Gelderland (where I live) and North-Brabant) will be filled with water.

Sorry if I'm totally ignorant about how dykes work, but wouldn't you have enough time in 30 years to 'upgrade' (for lack of a more accurate word) your dykes so they can adapt to a higher sea level? Netherlands being quite a small country, there wouldn't be that much of a distance to cover, so I'm guessing such a feat would not be impossible if all the time and ressources were dedicated to such a project.

 

quote:Originally posted by Paladin9 has a new G5:
Actually, from what I understand plants breathe CO2 and produce O2 when there is sunlight, but at night it is the opposite. Then plants use O2 and produce CO2. This is what I remember from school.

Yes, you're right about that.

[Refalm]

quote:Laukev7: Sorry if I'm totally ignorant about how dykes work, but wouldn't you have enough time in 30 years to 'upgrade' (for lack of a more accurate word) your dykes so they can adapt to a higher sea level? Netherlands being quite a small country, there wouldn't be that much of a distance to cover, so I'm guessing such a feat would not be impossible if all the time and ressources were dedicated to such a project.

There's a lot of dykes here. Upgrading them all takes at least 20 years, and then you got all kinds of protests from people wo are affraid to lose their house because they live near a dyke. And they're a lot.

[restin256]

I didn't mean to sound as though I was promoting pollution. It's evil.

 

quote:Originally posted by Paladin9 has a new G5:
Actually, from what I understand plants breathe CO2 and produce O2 when there is sunlight, but at night it is the opposite. Then plants use O2 and produce CO2. This is what I remember from school.

I'm no authority on biology, but I wonder how the oxygen hasn't run out yet.