Carbon dioxide: Has friend become foe?

Sacramento Bee ^ | July 29, 2002 | Edie Lau

[farmfriend]

We draw carbon dioxide into our bodies and release it with every breath. Plants need it to survive. How did a gas essential to life become a demonized pollutant that could alter the world's environment as we know it?

Carbon dioxide is one of the Earth's so-called greenhouse gases, which in increasing amounts can heat up the atmosphere. Increased heat may lead to wholesale changes in climate, disrupting the way plants, wildlife and people live all over the planet.

[farmfriend]

Trying to justify the new carbon rules. Maybe I should have put a barf alert on this.

[farmfriend]

This thing actually posted? It told me the page didn't exist when I hit post. Glad I waited or we would have 2.

Mr. Huang, noticed you were having trouble with it last night. Now I see why.

[dead]

The three key ingrediants for life as we know it are carbon, water, and heat.

The wonderous creature known as man is increasing earth's abundance of all three, allowing for lush explosion of creation.

We rock.

[norraad]

Fossil (not even a good name for it) fuels will never be depleted.

Crude=2nd most abundant fluid on earth, being renewed & made by "Mutha Earth" everyday. Sorry to burst your overedumacated bubble head, Mr. & Mrs. Ex~spurt.

[goldstategop]

Let's be honest: let's force the planet to stop expelling CO2 in human and animal waste breath and the greenhouse gas problem will be solved.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Preserving trees doesn't help much but growing more would take much more carbon out of the air.

[tjg]

There is not one iota of science in this article that burning fossil fuels causes signifigant increases in atmospheric CO2 levels.

Nor is there any science that indicates the increases that occured scince 1958 have any deleterious impact on the environment.

Speculating on the impact 10000 years hence, of conditions existing today, is not science, it's science fiction.

[Squawk 8888]

Each gallon of gasoline burned releases about 19.5 pounds of carbon dioxide, of which 5.3 pounds is carbon.

Um, no. Even if all 5.3lb of carbon in a gallon of gas was burned completely the resulting carbon dioxide would only be about 15lb. One gallon of gas weighs six pounds.

[dead]

Great article:

Carbon Dioxide, the Staff of Life

[michigander]

Sources of atmospheric CO2 can today be divided into two groups: natural and anthropogenic. Natural sources include the respiration of animals (60Gt per annum) and the surface ocean (90Gt per annum) (Schimel et al., 1995). Anthropogenic sources include the combustion of fossil fuels (power stations and transport) and cement production (5.5Gt per annum) and land-use changes (mainly deforestation) (1.6Gt per annum)

[farmfriend]

I don't see volcanos in there.

[doc30]

Each gallon of gasoline burned releases about 19.5 pounds of carbon dioxide, of which 5.3 pounds is carbon.

Um, no. Even if all 5.3lb of carbon in a gallon of gas was burned completely the resulting carbon dioxide would only be about 15lb. One gallon of gas weighs six pounds

19.5 lbs of CO2 is correct.

5.3 lbs of carbon in one gallon of gasoline requires about 14.1 lbs of oxygen for a total of 19.4 lbs. An atom of oxygen weighs about 1.33 times as much as carbon, and 2 atoms of oxygen are needed for each atom of carbon burned.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Layoff the wet noodles now will you!

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[blam]

Next: "Government Taxes Breathing." Large families hit the hardest.

[norraad]

"Once again, the communication process has broken down"

How is that gallon burned?

Was it with a little toilet(carb) on top of an engine which flushes unburned fuel (oh, they love that!).

FI= fuel injection developed by our friends the nazi's but kept hidden by our friends in Sneakyman Inc. for decades?

Or how about High Pressure FI (13 atmospheres) which surrounds each molecule of fuel with enough air for complete & clean burn?

[nightdriver]

"Other gases contribute to the effect as well, including methane, nitrous oxide and chemicals used for refrigeration and air conditioning, but CO2 is responsible for 84 percent of people's output."

Don't forget water vapor, which, we're told, accounts for over 90% of the "greenhouse gases" in the earth's atmosphere.

How do the enviro-nazis propose to curb water vapor emissions, hmmmmmmmmmm?

[Squawk 8888]

Damn, I hate it when an enviro gets a fact right. It's inconsiderate of them to be inconsistent like that.

[Grampa Dave]

First of all, all card carrying enviral whackos should immediately stop breathing to eliminate their CO2 emissions:

We should have an immediate Voluntary Human Extinction Day for all good Greens who hate humans and love the earth and critters more than humans. That would be a great start towards limiting the dangerous C02!

[michigander]

I don't see volcanos in there.

Neither do I.
How much CO2 do they contribute per annum? I can't find a good answer.

[Squawk 8888]

An atom of oxygen weighs about 1.33 times as much as carbon,

My bad. I thought carbon was the heavier element- good thing I'm in IT and not a chemist.