"glow-bull warming" - LOL, have to remember that one!

Keep in mind…..none of this was voted on.

Tells you everything you need to know about their belief in glow-bull warming.

Pretty much for anything that uses chlorophyll.

I recall reading somewhere elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 is actually beneficial to America's corn and wheat crops.

"When the elite stop using 10X energy that us working slobs use..." Good test, but the litmus test for me to revisit my thinking is when the elite start massively selling, as opposed to accumulating, ocean beach front property.

LOL!

They are like peat. you just have to dry them out first.

Patrick Moore, who worked with Greenpeace early on, and got kicked out for not toeing the party line, has brought up the fact that atmospheric CO2 is actually much lower that in the Carboniferous era and has been steadily declining for hundreds of millions of years - to the point that without human intervention, it would have soon dropped to levels too low for plants to use, which would have caused a serious "extinction-level event". His thesis is that it's not the CO2 that causes global warming, and that we actually need more of it.

All the same, you can have that cold weather. The main thing I remember from a stint in Ann Arbor, MI was going out in the morning and immediately having my mustache freeze up and start to crackle, No thanks.
Flatulence collection, though? there go your carbon credits!

I quite agree about it keeping you warm multiple times, but I've had my coronary arteries re-arranged, and they told me to go easy with some of that, so I occasionally let Messrs Stihl and Poulan help me with that.

My uncle saw a chimney fire once and gave a pretty scary description. I bought a set of chimney brushes to fit my flue, so I take care of that myself. It's not difficult, just dirty. Wear an RZ mask. I had been hiring a certified chimney sweep, but when I went in myself, it was astonishing how much creosote he had left in the corners and crevices.

Wood warms you not just once, not just twice, but several times. Cutting is best done in winter.
(1) Cut it down. (Many videos out there that'll show you how to NOT do it!)
(2) Remove branches.
(3) Cut to stove length.
-- 1, 2, and 3 can be done with an axe or two-man saw if you don't have a chain saw.
(4) Split, using wedges, not your axe.
(5) Stack to dry.
(4.5) Build a shelter to keep the wood dry.
(6) Carry dry wood to stove.
(7) Burn wood and feel warm.

1 through 5 are all hard work and will keep you warm.

Use appropriate methods to avoid chimney fires. A friend (W1ZBE, SK) had a free-standing chimney made of firebrick, set away from his house. To clean it he would start a chimney fire in it. Most of the rest of us hire (or ought to hire) a chimney sweep. If you hear something that sounds like a freight train running through your house, you have a chimney fire.

If you get to doing large-scale harvesting of wood, you can get a couple of horses who know how to snake logs through the forest. You only need two men, one hitches the log to the horse out in the forest, and the other unhitches at the destination and sends the horse back. No need to try to lead the horse if he knows the job.

So, if we could burn the ILLEGAL ALIENS as fuel, could we get carbon credits for BOTH reduction of their carbon footprints, and using a RENEWABLE source that shows no signs of stopping?

Asking for a Friend with wood-burning stoves, and ACRES of land who might need to spare a few trees... LOL

According to NOAA data, which I downloaded and pushed through Excel, and graphed.

We spent MILLIONS of years with CO2 at 20-30 TIMES current levels. AND through ICE AGES.

One would think that a SIMPLE DOUBLING of CO2 would have melted all of that ice. But it's not a SOURCE of warmth. The SUN is. Just ask Pluto.

And we are NEAR HISTORIC LOWS of CO2. That's The FUNNY PART. So they are measuring an UPSWING from historic lows.

It's all magic based on where you start your data, and the SCALE you use to graph it!

The next best thing is a coal fired car. You know, a Tesla!

Carbon pollution is the great lie ever perpetrated on allegedly "educated" people.
When the elite stop using 10X energy that us working slobs use for our mere existence, then, and only then, will I believe we are facing an existential threat.

Right you are about fireplaces, but mine were built in the '80s. My biggest worry is the control freaks here in the Peoples Republic of New York have yearly been proposing the state legislature outlaw wood burning. Fortunately they have not succeeded - funny how the control freaks can continuously press for their agenda and once they get it all discussion ends. My wife is from the North Country up on the St. Lawrence where winter temps can easily go down to -20 or -30 many times throughout the winter and wood heat supplementation for many is a must.

LOL, flatulence collection may be needed to burn for heat later!

Do you believe that the so-called carbon footprint is actually environmentally bad? If I am not mistaken there was more CO2 in the atmosphere in earlier times, maybe much more. Also, how are we to know whether the methods for measuring CO2 are correct, and how are we to know that the level of CO2 drives the global temperature? And what IS global temperature? "It feels hotter now than is did (n) years ago," seems rather unscientific.

That sounds wonderful.

LOL

Be careful. In more 'progressive' areas they frown on building homes with fireplaces / wood stoves. Soon having one will prevent your being able to get homeowner's insurance. We badly need a constitutional amendment that says government will not interfere with a citizen's basic needs.

On the 2-mile walk, just don't vent off the waste gas from last night's chili beans. They'll give you the cow treatment.

I've bought a couple of wood-burning stoves, and have 400 acres of trees to fuel them with.Just in case.

With communist China generating all the pollution they want to, under those conditions I would expect the world carbon footprint to increase anyway. After all, someone has to produce all those widgets that the US and Europe can no longer make, due to our own government restrictions.

CO2 represents .04% of the earths atmosphere. Once this becomes common knowledge I suspect there will be a revolt when people begin to suffer. For me the most current relevant movie is Hunger Games. Substitute energy for food and bingo its real. Covid proved that governments can control the populations with fear. Knowledge fixes this problem.

Soylent Green comes to mind.
I may have to watch that tonight.