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CO2 output must cease altogether, studies warn (sky is falling alert)
Washington Post ^ | March, 9, 2008 | Juliet Eilperin

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caldeira; carboncult; carbondioxide; dementalillness; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; lifehate
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To: Boiling point; SiVisPacemParaBellum; cogitator
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?

That one might be right up cogitator's alley.

81 posted on 03/10/2008 3:10:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cloverfield 2008! Why vote for a lesser monster?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; cogitator

Already explained earlier in the thread. Never mind.


82 posted on 03/10/2008 3:14:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cloverfield 2008! Why vote for a lesser monster?)
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum
"The question is, what if we don't want the Earth to warm anymore?" asked Carnegie Institution senior scientist idiot Ken Caldeira, co-author of a paper published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Unreal.

Personally, with the winter we've had, I'd take some warming about now. If I never saw snow again, I could still die happy.

83 posted on 03/10/2008 4:28:22 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: tearlenb

We’d have to stop all forest fires caused by lightning. Just outlaw them. That ought to do the trick.


84 posted on 03/10/2008 4:30:36 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: 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.

I guess that means they'll have to quit smoking whatever it is they're smoking, too.

85 posted on 03/10/2008 4:31:28 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MarkL

Except methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2. I guess the guy forgot about that.

I wonder what this guys plans are for the strongest greenhouse gas of them all- H2O?

He’s going after small potatoes there with just focusing on CO2.


86 posted on 03/10/2008 4:36:15 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum
CO2 output must cease altogether

Just continue the work that Hitler and Stalin started. While we're at it, give Pol Pot the Nobel prize. But shouldn't we exterminate all of the animals before we finish off the people?

87 posted on 03/10/2008 4:48:39 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Southerngl

They tried that on South Park once. It lead to a rash of spontaneous human combustion. Townsfolk were bursting into flames right and left.


88 posted on 03/10/2008 4:51:52 PM PDT by Redcloak ("A plague o' both your houses!")
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's just a cartoon, but......


89 posted on 03/10/2008 5:11:15 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: Redcloak

HAHA! Spontaneous combustion. With my husband, I could see that being possible.


90 posted on 03/10/2008 6:12:30 PM PDT by Southerngl
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum

There is still snow in my yard on 10 March...


91 posted on 03/10/2008 7:20:45 PM PDT by cardinal4
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To: ichabod1

>”This would require us to all stop breathing.”<

-No, only enviro-weenies must stop.


92 posted on 03/10/2008 9:39:35 PM PDT by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: Hazwaste
Surely you can’t be serious.

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley....

93 posted on 03/11/2008 2:49:23 AM PDT by dirtbiker (I 'm a liberal's worst nightmare:A redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: SiVisPacemParaBellum
Considering that mankind, in all his fossil-fuel burning glory, only contributes 3% to the total global CO2 output, I don't see where anything we do will make one bit of difference.

FWIW, they can TRY to keep me from warming my a$$ this or any other winter, but they will fail.

(Mrs. Dirtbiker has already decreed that HER house will not be cold, and if Mrs. Dirtbiker ain't happy, nobody is happy....)

94 posted on 03/11/2008 4:10:39 PM PDT by dirtbiker (I 'm a liberal's worst nightmare:A redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
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To: neverdem

> “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.


95 posted on 12/22/2008 6:17:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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