CO2 output must cease altogether, studies warn (sky is falling alert)

Washington Post ^ | March, 9, 2008 | Juliet Eilperin

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Already explained earlier in the thread. Never mind.

[metmom]

"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.

[metmom]

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

[metmom]

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.

[metmom]

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.

[PAR35]

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?

[Redcloak]

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

[uglybiker]

It's just a cartoon, but......

[Southerngl]

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

[cardinal4]

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

[FBD]

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

-No, only enviro-weenies must stop.

[dirtbiker]

Surely you can’t be serious.

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

[dirtbiker]

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....)

[SunkenCiv]

> “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.