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[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

I would like to to substantiate your assertions.

I am not opposed to GM. However, I am opposed to patenting food.

Let me Wikipedia that for you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene..._modified_food

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[jackdale]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

Let me Wikipedia that for you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene..._modified_food

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I know what GM is. Right now it is a deflection from the issue at hand.

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

I know what GM is. Right now it is a deflection from the issue at hand.

Ok, in 50 words or less, ignoring that one of your links also indicates that a lot of crops will maintain or even increase in nutrition in the futuresphere....

Genetic modification of crops can be used to increase nutritional value, resistance to insects and disease. BINGO! Problem solved. And forget about patents, in the context of things they don't last that long and if it's such a concern to you personally, eat fortified breakfast cereals.

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[newhaul]

Originally Posted by jackdale

Yep

The total anthropogenic carbon emissions from 1751 to 2011 is:
373,729,000,000 metric tonnes or 1,370,464,000,000 metric tonnes of CO2.

1751 - 3 million metric tons of anthropogenic carbon emissions
2011 - 9449 million metric tons of anthropogenic carbon emissions

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ndp030/global.1751_2011.ems

I used a spread sheet to get the total.

OK then I take it you mean trillion metric tons of co2

[jackdale]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

Genetic modification of crops can be used to increase nutritional value, resistance to insects and disease.

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Name one developed to deal with increased CO2.

The Wiki link makes no reference to CO2.

Wishful thinking will not suffice.

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

Name one developed to deal with increased CO2.

The Wiki link makes no reference to CO2.

Wishful thinking will not suffice.

Pedantic? I think so. Those of us equipped with an ability to think and reason for ourselves without the need to rely upon peer reviewed papers or other cited sources can draw logical conclusions from the vast ocean of data available to all....

Some plants E.g wheat may lose up to 15% nutritional value.
Genetic modification may allow increased wheat yields to negate the perhaps15%
Whilst maybe increasing it's nutritional value
Whilst maybe making it tolerant of warmer climatic conditions
Whilst maybe equipping it with freaking big lasers.

Then again, maybe we can switch to existing strains of corn and sorgum your beloved peer reviewed above reproach sources tell us maybe will increase in nutritional value.

To be frank, these types of papers that you quote are one of the reasons that more and more people are classifying climate change hysteria into the same categories as the millennium bug.

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[jackdale]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

To be frank, these types of papers that you quote are one of the reasons that more and more people are classifying climate change hysteria into the same categories as the millennium bug.

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The level of ignorance about both is equivalent.

I worked in an IT department just prior to 2000. I did not work on the Y2K, but I was aware of the ramifications.

[jackdale]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

Pedantic? I think so. Those of us equipped with an ability to think and reason for ourselves without the need to rely upon peer reviewed papers or other cited sources can draw logical conclusions from the vast ocean of data available to all....

I surmise that Isaac Asimov's observation applies equally to some Australians.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

I surmise that Isaac Asimov's observation applies equally to some Australians.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

With all due respect, if you think two papers proffering what if suppositions will somehow prevail over existing here and now technologies then the accusations of ignorance you attempt to cast must fall upon youself well before others.

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[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

The level of ignorance about both is equivalent.

I worked in an IT department just prior to 2000. I did not work on the Y2K, but I was aware of the ramifications.

Yes 2 digit years in legacy code. Your point being?

Just to edit were you one of the doomsayers telling us planes were going to fall from the sky?

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[jackdale]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

Yes 2 digit years in legacy code. Your point being?

Just to edit were you one of the doomsayers telling us planes were going to fall from the sky?

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We have a number of older programs with 2 digits years.

Planes were not going to fall from the sky.

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

We have a number of older programs with 2 digits years.

Planes were not going to fall from the sky.

What were they written on. A Commodore 64?

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[jackdale]

Originally Posted by Reefmagnet

With all due respect, if you think two papers proffering what if suppositions will somehow prevail over existing here and now technologies then the accusations of ignorance you attempt to cast must fall upon youself well before others.

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Then why do you not show me these current technologies and ally my concerns.

I have no science from you, just assertions.

[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

Then why do you not show me these current technologies and ally my concerns.

I have no science from you, just assertions.

Round and round we go....
Genetic modification
Corn flakes

No one eats grains of wheat like peanuts and nothing else. If this unfolding disaster of low nutrient wheat affecting billions comes to the fore, let's chuck the missing iron and zinc and whatever in during the milling process. It is the 21st century after all and, surprise, surprise, we do possess the technology to do this rather effortlessly.

Personally, I think your harping on a storm in a teacup.

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[Reefmagnet]

Originally Posted by jackdale

Then why do you not show me these current technologies and ally my concerns.

I have no science from you, just assertions.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442550/

http://www.yara.com.au/crop-nutritio...y-and-quality/

Of course these probably don't satisfy your requirements for a link with increased CO2 but they're hard to find because I think aside from you and the authors of the papers you sprout, no one cares.

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