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Hi folks, here is news of a sophisticated piece of misinformation that you might be interested in: Researchers from the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, and the Department of Atmospheric Physics at Gothenburg University have published research they believe will overturn the consensus view that man's activities are causing global warming. The good news is that the "researchers" have discovered what is pumping all this extra CO2 into the atmosphere. The blame lies not with humanity, but with benthic bacteria, which live on the continental shelves of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and because a series of algae blooms have wiped out their natural predators over the last 140 years, they have been enjoying a season of wild prosperity, the paper explains. "These periods of algal bloom, as the palaeontological record shows, have been occurring for over three million years, and are always accompanied by a major increase in carbon dioxide emissions, as a result of the multiplication of bacteria when predator pressure is reduced. They generally last for 150-200 years. If the current episode is consistent with this record, we should expect carbon dioxide emissions to peak between now and mid-century, then return to background levels." But the good people at The Register have debunked this carefully-crafted lie: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/bacteria_belching_co2/ just in case anyone presents this as 'fact'... Adam ==================================== Adam Warren Learning Technologist Tel: 023 80594486 ==================================== Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit B25/3073 Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ ====================================