[pp.int.general] Environmentalists and pirates, free information perspective

[Brian McNeil]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:32 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > It is an indisputable fact that human activity since the Industrial
>     > Revolution has significantly increased the amount of energy we're adding
>     > to the planet's atmospheric system. This is a closed system. There is
>     > nowhere for that extra energy to go.
> 
>     Nonsense. Why do you think it gets colder at night?
> 
> The way he said it is indeed wrong.  What's happening is that we are
> pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere; as a result, when it
> gets colder at night, it doesn't get ENOUGH colder.  Over the years,
> the temperature slowly rises.

Thanks, I had felt rather stupid when the obvious mistake was pointed
out.


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