Call me crazy... hug a tree
Posted by deleted 8 years, 4 months ago to Science
I had a simple thought on climate science. It's a basic equation. More carbon dioxide leads to a higher partial pressure of that same gas in the atmosphere. A higher concentration of carbon dioxide means there is more fuel for chlorophyll-containing plants to "breathe". Therefore, given that soil nutrients are constant or improving, more plants will grow and consume this excess CO2, producing more oxygen molecules and balancing the carbon equation. Thus, foliage will save the planet, after all. Then the added green color absorbs more of the sunlight, cooling the temperatures down. Call me crazy... Hug a tree.
Now one thing we do have to be aware of are the algae blooms in the oceans. While I like plants, I also like my healthy animal ecosystems. Algae blooms threaten millions of square miles of habitat and fishing.
Not to mention all the gases a ton of smoking volcanoes belched out!
Despite extinction--that taking an asteroid strike--I saw a paleontologist on TV call dinos the most successful critters ever for all the millions of years we survived.
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Did this big guy have an in general prob with high CO2 levels and smoking volcanoes?
I think~NOT!
The dirty secret of climate science is that so much of it is based on computer models, and those models assume positive feedback loops - when in fact we have very little idea of the truth of the matter.
Damn, I wish I had thought of that.
Gee...wouldn't have anything to do with the release of that phony Paris Accord, would it?
Jan
Jan
You're threatening to ruin millions of worthless careers....
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What's it all mean? At worst. Canada grows more winter wheat. The US grows lots of bananas and Mexico gets year round mangos. What's the problem?
- ac
My daughter pointed out some thirty years ago that the amount of acres being cleared in the Amazon equaled the entire land area about every year and a half - according to the tree huggers - so it must be a desert by now too late too bad so sad...do you think it's those blankety blank canadanadians?
California did try to tax the wind a number of years ago. Actually it was Oakland Representative "Red" Ron Dellums who noticed the sailboats while crossing the bay bridge and decided they weren't paying their fair share of fuel tax and anti pollution tax and decided to do a tax based on square footage of the sails. It was turned down with much amusement in the Hallowed Halls of Congress DC. But these days i doubt that would have stopped it. The joke was the sport had just been applauded for keeping pollution down. Red by the way did not have Red hair. he was the other Communist in office along with Bernie Sanders.
Lots of books on the subjects but try touring some cruising type sail boats in a local marina....you will not need the corrosion resistance we require but the ideas and technology are the same...
Wind, per Matt Ridley:
"To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world's energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart, killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests, killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the average turbine - despite all this, the total energy generated each day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide."
"Solar provides about a third of one per cent of world energy."
Eventually, nuclear, solar power, and innovative power sources will surpass fossil fuel, but we have enough of the last-mentioned for the next couple hundred years - plenty of time to innovate.
Jan
Jan
Jan
For emergencies a petro (gasoline, diesel, propane) powered generator is a much more economic, and reliable solution.
When I looked into getting a powered generator, the amount of fuel I would be able to keep on hand would power the generator for about 3 days, unless I got a big tank (which is also expensive).
I have read articles that indicate that solar is pretty worthless in non-desert areas...Britain was specifically mentioned.
Jan, scant biomass but lots o'sun
No taxes on sun ... yet.
Amazon has Norfolk Pine for $31.09 This year it's table top size , Next year bigger and after a while you got one for the National Christmas Tree.
There is a real universe. It exists, it has certain characteristics. Perception and reason can be applied to understand it. The fact that we don't have perfect knowledge of it does not, in any way, negate that fact or the value of logic and reason.
Let's take a thought experiment: The planet Hackned orbits a small sun in the Andromeda Galaxy. On Hackned there is an ocean containing a fish, which we will call Fred. Can we reason the existence of Fred from the evidence of our senses and our reason? No. Our senses do not give us evidence of the nature of planets in the Andromeda galaxy -- although we can perceive the galaxy itself. If we go there we might, in fact see Fred -- and even eat him for dinner. Then our senses and reason will answer the question of Fred's existence: "Not anymore."