On CSPAN this morning there was a MIT professor, Jason Pontin, espousing on the 10 breakthrough technical developments occurring today ... see: CSPAN Video. He was quite knowledgeable and interesting until he got around to global warming. He then said that there are 40 parts per million of carbon in our atmosphere (correct, if he means carbon dioxide by volume ... actually just carbon would be less). Then he said something that had me shouting at the TV. He said that he would bet all the money in his pocket that, in his lifetime, all this carbon would be removed from our air! This, of course,would mean that we would not have any plants since this carbon dioxide is what they feed on. No plants means no sustenance for animals ... for plants are the basis of all life ... and thus no MIT professor.
And then no one to either pay or collect his idiotic bet.
