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2005-12-05 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Steve White 2005-12-05 00:13|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And the United States - by far the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases. Correct me if I'm wrong but Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide is a biproduct of human exhalation (breathing). Europeans pontificating about Kyoto spew out enormous amounts of hot air at an increasing rate since Kyoto was signed.

I think someone needs to reexamine those figures.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-12-05 10:24|| 2005-12-05 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe China is by far the largest producer of green house gasses. Unless they stop exhaling.

Posted by Thritch Ebbugum4328 2005-12-05 10:29|| 2005-12-05 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 By sure numbers of Population certainly China wins but I think Europe gets extra Carbon credits for the amount of hot air their politicians have created and the heat of said air.

Either way someone should reavaluate viza-be the USA where Bush barely even defends himself.

My bet is the carbon released by Mt St Helans reuptions is far greater than anything put out by the industrialized nations and if there is a hockey stick (which I believe was disproved by the original guy who came up with the idea when he realized his data was bad) it has far more to do with Volcanic eruptions than human action.

Should we avoid shitting in our own beds, yes, but better a mess in bed than to become so poor we can't afford a bed at all.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-12-05 14:32|| 2005-12-05 14:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Airborne plant food (C02) is a pollutant?

Whatever next?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2005-12-05 17:00|| 2005-12-05 17:00|| Front Page Top

#5 What's next?

Simple, eventually the radical greenies will want to find a way to shut down fully half of the photosynthesis cycle - the one where the process reverses from using CO2 to create oxygen (don;t tell anybody, but that's a contributor to the oxidyzing agent "ozone" which has been shown to contribute to greenhouse gas buildup) to storing and releasing excess CO2 not used in the reductase process.

All those zillions of trees will simply have to go - along with every plant that utilizes the dark/light photosynthesis cycle - that'll help clear up all that nasty haze over the forests.

Oh, yeah - that grass all over the place? That'll have to go too.

Doesn;t matter that the oceans absorb enormous quantities of CO2 and act as an enormous heat sink, that the carbon cycle is also present in the _rocks_ of the earth and that natural weathering releases gigatons of the stuff every year that's been locked up by natural processes.

Oh, no...but all that's simply real science. Can't have that.

There's nothing to see here. Move along, move along...

Posted by LC FOTSGreg">LC FOTSGreg 2005-12-05 23:14|| 2005-12-05 23:14|| Front Page Top

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