Posted on 03/10/2008 10:02:26 AM PDT by SiVisPacemParaBellum
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.
Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order to prevent warming that could change precipitation patterns and dry up sources of water worldwide. Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists, from countries including the United States, Canada and Germany, are delivering a simple message: The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.
"The question is, what if we don't want the Earth to warm anymore?" asked Carnegie Institution senior scientist Ken Caldeira, co-author of a paper published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "The answer implies a much more radical change to our energy system than people are thinking about."
Emissions continue to rise... (see link for the entire article)
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How long until we have to invent stuff to suck the CO2 back out of the atmosphere? Other than trees....
The computers design the models, ya know. : )
This is our most desperate hour. Help up Arbor Day Foundation. Your my only hope.
I watched that show last night “Earth, Population Zero” and heard that outrageous quote that 19 pounds of CO2 are released for every gallon of gas burned. This is up from seventeen pounds in the movie, “Who Killed The Electric Car”. I need someone to explain to me so that I can understand, How do you burn EIGHT pounds of fuel, releasing all that heat energy, and end up with NINETEEN pounds of CO2?
I hereby order everyone on this planet to stop farting. Immediately.
Um, could I start tomorrow?
New math
And every plant and tree would die.
It comes very close to advocating genocide, and it seems ridiculous now, but who would have thought the nazis would do what they did?
Gasoline is approximately C8H18 or octane with a molecular weight of 114. The 8 carbon atoms combine to form 8 CO2 molecules Molecular weigh 44 * 8 = 352.
Therefore the CO2 formed is 3 times the weight of the gasoline.
“We will take things from you for the common good.” HRC............That may mean your life...........
I think all the liberal eco-alarmists need to take the intiative and lead by example on this issue with an immediate moratorium on exhaling.
Well, then, we need to get cracking on building enough nuke plants to replace 100% of our electrical grid capacity.
Yeah, I’m not really worried. More CO2 means we can produce more fuel. Confused yet? Look up the Sabatier reactor.
“So every living on the planet needs to die?”
Don’t be ridiculous. Just everything that isn’t a plant. :~)
Craziest sh-t I ever heard of. All LIBS and RATS stop exhaling immediately? My pet rock is overloaded. HIC!
There's gotta be another reason.
Hey if everyone stops breathing so will dictators, thus all problems are solved. The earth is saved, but for what? That is the real question, why try and save the earth to make it inhabitable for future generations if all life must cease to save the planet. Logic fails these idiots.
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