Posted on 03/21/2007 10:31:06 AM PDT by rrr51
I was listening to the hearings and just heard AlGore say that natural CO2, such as CO2 produced by volcanos, is heavier than CO2 produced by man. Did I hear right? Is that what he said? Is it true? Does anybody know?
Chubby Rain..
Chubby Carbon Dioxide..
Hey, it's plausible...
But how much CO2 comes from non-biologic sources?
Even limestone (seabed - magma - volcanoes) was originally plants/algea/diatoms deposited on the ocean floor.
And what is the historic model or data on availability of N-14 (ionic?) in the upper atmosphere, and how is that well, call it a cross-section, in a way, of nitrogen affected by solar cycles and Earth's magnetic fields?
Cheers!
Too lazy to track down a copy of Herzberg...
Cheers!
In the halls of Congress...hmmmf. I'd probably get more action there by trolling backwards with my pants down.
Did I say that out loud? Ooops.
And that's why he never got anything higher than a C in science all through college.
The fool has said in his heart that Al Gore is SMART...
C-14 is formed by cosmic radiation interacting with nitrogen, most common isotope is 14. The C-14 decays back to N-14.
And a pound of nails weighs more than a pound of bananas.
Chemistry is the only class in high school in which I didn't get an A. Please explain.
Hear it is proof positive the Democrats are STUPID! And to think that this POS was one hearbeat (and miscount) away from the White House? I'm starting to wonder if his claims of inventing the internet is a sign of Ceaucescu level delusions!
And also to think that the University of Minnesota is going to give this dumbass an honorary PhD! Says a lot about Minnesota!
I guess they didn't teach chemistry at divinity school.
Or maybe they do and that was one of the courses that he flunked out of.
Or maybe the chemistry studies were more in line with the Timothy Leary kind.
Good synopsis.
The point I was making yesterday is that Carbon Dioxide constitutes approximately .035 percent of the atmosphere, having been emitted by man, machines, volcanoes, dying plants, and Al Gore.
But why isn't it more? Why doesn't it accumulate?
The answer to that is that it is absorbed by green plants using photosynthesis to produce the materials of the plant: cellulose, starch, sugars, and many other things for which Carbon Dioxide is a basic fertilizer.
A plant trying to grow in an environment devoid of carbon dioxide would be unable to synthesize these things. It would be stunted.
Contrariwise, plants provided extra Carbon Dioxide grow lavishly, absorbing and utilizing the resource.
If you want to get rid of Carbon Dioxide, wave it around in a greenhouse. It's like scattering money at the mall. The plants will eat it up.
Good Column by John Podhoretz:
OUT OF POWER March 22, 2007 -- AL GORE went to do his preacher- scientist-prophet thing yesterday on Capitol Hill - and he said unto the elected politicians listening to his testimony that they must "walk through that fire" to save the planet.
The Goracle asked the members of Congress in front of him to be brave and adopt policies that may do grievous short-term harm to the economy in exchange for the long-term benefit of curing climate change.
The free market can't be trusted to fix this problem, saith the Goracle, so the politicians have to fix it with unpopular legislation.
Fair enough. He believes the world is in a crisis and that politicians must do what is best, not what is convenient.
But what about the Goracle walking through a little fire himself? He knows as well as anyone that the only form of energy that has no effect whatever on greenhouse gases is nuclear energy.
And yet here the Prophet of Doom was bizarrely tentative.
"I'm not opposed" to nuclear power, spake the Goracle, but suddenly he became deeply solicitous of the role of the free market. Nuclear plants are expensive to build, you see, and when the price of gas drops, energy companies drop their plans to construct them.
Given the level of his concern, why would the Goracle not suggest Congress offer enormous incentives to energy companies to build nuclear-power plants?
And since many companies don't even bother to try to build nuclear plants because of community opposition, why would he not embark upon an educational effort to explain to the American people the environmental benefit to be gained from a major program to build nuclear power plants?
Why? I'll tell you why. Nuclear power is an ancient bugbear for the environmentalist left, and Gore is now their leader and sovereign. He's willing to speak the Inconvenient Truth to Power - just so long as it doesn't offend his own power base.
And speaking of a power base: Does his appearance yesterday herald the entrance of the Goracle into the 2008 race?
Well, even some of those inclined to offer ecstatic reviews of his appearance - like the blogger Brian Beutler, who covered the Prophet's every word - could only come up with phrases like "he did pretty well."
On the other hand, he showed one sign he's thinking about it. In his statement he called this time "our Thermopylae moment." Thermopylae was the site of the ancient battle between the Greeks and the Persians immortalized in the mammoth hit movie "300."
This is pure sound-bite politics, as practiced by presidential campaigns and White Houses - it's what politicians do if they want to get themselves on the evening news.
The only problem is that analogizing America in 2007 to Thermopylae makes no sense whatever.
The Goracle speaks in bad riddles!
jpodhoretz@gmail.com
Cows' burps account for 4% of CO2 emmisions on Planet Earth.
Al Gore feeds at the other end of the bovine intestinal tract!
He'd better not be saying that. CO2—even the "manmade" form of it—is actually 50% heavier than air. If Al's suggesting that differences in weight play a significant role in the diffusion of gases (they don't), then all we have to do is dig a big hole in Death Valley and this entire GHG conversation is over.
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