That's nearly 100 years from now. I wouldn't put too much credence
on it. Even the youngest member of my family, who's just over 2 years
old might not be alive then, so the people for whom it will matter
aren't, most likely, even born yet.

I never said nobody claimed such.  People make all sorts of claims.  I
asked YOU to state exactly what is available today that we all can
afford.  You have failed to do so.  The truth is that there is no
alternative fuels for cars that is available and affordable today.
Hybrids are a stop gap with questionable benefits and not very
affordable.  Got any other ideas?

An international team of scientists has completed the first comprehensive
study of the ocean storage of carbon dioxide derived from human activity,
called anthropogenic CO2, based on a decade-long survey of global ocean
carbon distributions in the 1990s.
The findings, along with those detailed in a companion paper on the impacts
of anthropogenic CO2 on the chemistry of the oceans and the potential
response of marine animals and plants to changes in CO2 levels, will be
published in the July 16 issue of the journal Science.

"About half of the anthropogenic CO2 taken up over the last 200 years can be
found in the upper 10 percent of the ocean," said Christopher Sabine, an
oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in
Seattle, Wash.

Sabine is the lead author of one of the papers. "The ocean has removed 48
percent of the CO2 we have released to the atmosphere from burning fossil
fuels and cement manufacturing."

Over the long-term, the ocean has been the only reservoir on Earth to
consistently take up anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere. This uptake
changes seawater chemistry, and can have significant impacts on the biology
of the upper oceans.

The global survey combined carbon and other ocean measurements (such as
temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients and chlorofluorocarbon tracers) in
the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. These oceans have taken up about
118 billion metric tons of anthropogenic CO2 between 1800 and 1994, about a
third of their long-term potential.

The researchers, including scientists from the United States, South Korea,
Australia, Canada, Japan, Spain, and Germany, reviewed data gathered during
the 1990s as part of three major research programs: the National Science
Foundation (NSF)-led World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and Joint
Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS); and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)'s Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Study (OACES).

The new global data set of ocean carbon system observations, co-sponsored in
the United States by NSF, NOAA and the Department of Energy, is
unprecedented, say scientists, with 10 times more observations and 10 times
better accuracy than the previous global survey in the 1970s.

"This research presents the first complete synthesis of modern global ocean
inorganic carbon measurements," said James Yoder, director of NSF's ocean
sciences division.

"The results are among the most intriguing yet from the WOCE and JGOFS
programs."

"These new measurements, when coupled with how much anthropogenic carbon
dioxide is known to accumulate in the atmosphere, show that the ocean and
atmosphere are the two primary 'sinks' [holding tanks] of this carbon
dioxide since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The land is the
'source.'"

But that ocean "sink" may be changing, the studies conclude. "Feedbacks
between the ocean and atmosphere involving air-sea exchange, ocean
circulation and ocean biological processes need to be better understood,"
said Yoder.

Analysis of CO2 levels in ice cores have shown scientists that for the
400,000 years before the industrial revolution began in the 1800s,
atmospheric CO2 concentrations remained between 200 and 280 parts per
million.

Today CO2 levels are reaching 380 parts per million in the atmosphere.

"If the ocean had not removed 118 billion metric tons of anthropogenic
carbon between 1800 and 1994, the CO2 level in the atmosphere would be about
55 parts per million greater than currently observed," said Sabine.

"Because CO2 is an acid gas, the surface ocean pH is dropping," said Richard
Feely, a marine chemist at PMEL, and lead author of the companion paper.

If current scenarios are realized, surface ocean pH could drop lower than it
has been for more than five million years, he said.

Feely and colleagues describe two major impacts of the oceanic uptake of
anthropogenic CO2: They demonstrate that a substantial amount of the calcium
carbonate, found in shells of marine animals living in surface waters,
dissolves in the upper ocean. They then summarize the available evidence on
the response of marine calcifying organisms to elevated CO2.

Feely noted that scientists have seen a reduced ability to produce
protective calcium carbonate shells in many species of marine organisms at
high CO2 levels, including corals and plankton, drifting plants and animals
on which other marine life feeds.

"Based on our present knowledge, it appears that as seawater CO2 levels rise
the skeletal growth rates of calcareous plankton will be reduced as a result
of the effects of CO2 on calcification," said Victoria Fabry, a biologist at
California State University at San Marcos and a paper co-author.

Recent studies have shown that calcification rates can drop by as much as 25
to 45 percent at CO2 levels equivalent to atmospheric concentrations of 700
to 800 parts per million. Those levels will be reached by the end of this
century if fossil fuel consumption continues at projected levels.

The scientists note that the dissolving calcium carbonate shells also
partially act to neutralize CO2, thus allowing the ocean to take up more
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

However, the effects of decreased calcification in microscopic algae and
animals could alter marine food webs and, combined with other changes in
salinity, temperature and nutrients, could substantially alter the diversity
and productivity of the oceans.

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Plants turn CO2 into oxygen.  They are healthier with more co2.  We need
oxygen.  we need co2.

For the last 18 years they have been using satellite thermal readings to
measure global warming.  Guess what?  The tempereature DROPPED 0.1 degree!
Also did you know that the temperature goes up and down in a 500 year cycle
and that we are starting a new upward cycle?  Did you know that the overall
temperature, despite this normal upward cycle is decreasing (6,000 year
average trend)?  Did you know that about 4,000 years ago Alaska was tropical
(palm trees found in the permafrost carbon-dated to about 4,000 years)?