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Just after Fauci's retirement.Originally posted by pinstripers View PostKung Wu say, man who read woman like book, prefer braille!Comment
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Yep. He's got a few more million $ to make off the Covid pandemic between now and then. The highest paid federal employee has to keep it going as long as he can.Originally posted by Kung Wu View PostComment
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Incoming Lutz tweet blaming global warming in 3...2...1...Originally posted by pinstripers View PostComment
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"You Just Want to Slap The #### Outta Some People"Comment
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"You Just Want to Slap The #### Outta Some People"Comment
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Ming the Merciless is laughing at us.
When the hot hail hits, I will be proven right all along."When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Better have some sugar and water too, or else your lemonade will suck!Comment
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An interesting article based on a book by one of the original founders of Greenpeace:
Will We Purposely Add CO2 to the Atmosphere Soon?
One of the points that climate warming proponents do not speak about is the fact that carbon is possibly the most important element on our planet. We are carbon-based life forms. Water and carbon led to the most basic life forms, and they in turn used photosynthesis to create glucose…the sugars necessary for the energy plants and animals needed to evolve and survive. Without them, there is no us.
Moore further discusses how the level of CO2 in our atmosphere is close to an all-time low at some 415 ppm rather than at some unusually high-level that global warming proponents would have us believe. In fact, the CO2 level has been much higher than this during most of the existence of modern life. Considering geological time spans, the Earth’s atmospheric CO2 has been about 2,000 ppm with highs of some 6,000 ppm. It has dropped very low before during the peak of glacial periods. Moore adds that at about 150 ppm plants begin to suffocate.
Where did all this CO2 come from? Carbon is abundant in our planet and is released into the atmosphere through vulcanism. Volcanos have erupted since the early formation of the Earth. The more active the volcanos, the more CO2 in the atmosphere. Mammalian life has lived through millions of years with atmospheric CO2 levels at 2,000 ppm and even higher. It makes no sense that the current level of 415 ppm is somehow dangerous. On the contrary, one might argue that it is dangerously low.
If it is true that our CO2 is low, where did the CO2 go? The elements in the Earth that helped fuel vulcanism, such as uranium, radon, and others, were deposited on the planet 4.6 billion years ago and they have been decaying ever since. That is why volcanic eruptions are a relatively rare event in the present era. So, the planet is producing much less atmospheric carbon than it did millions of years ago.
Still, this implies that even though the carbon would stop increasing, it would be at some consistent level, right? Unfortunately, the level of atmospheric CO2 has steadily declined for the last 150 million years, and where that carbon has gone may surprise you.
We know that carbon is stored in fossil fuels and in living and dead plants. Did you know that plants and soil contain twice as much carbon as the atmosphere? The ocean holds 45 times the carbon as the atmosphere does. The really surprising thing is that 100 million billion tons of carbon are stored in carbonaceous rocks, such as marble, limestone, and chalk, which are the fossilized remains of ancient sea animals that could make their own protective shells. This is 118,000 times the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. These are all referred to as carbon sinks. Carbon is predominantly being absorbed rather than released into the atmosphere, and this may be the real global threat.
In geologic thinking, we are perilously close to the lowest levels of atmospheric CO2 that can sustain life as we know it, and we do not know of another natural mechanism that releases more carbon into the atmosphere. To intentionally reduce it further is to put an even greater strain on the growth of the plants that make up the foundation of all life on Earth. Perhaps this is even the natural way life as we know it is supposed to end.
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I knew carbon was important to life but I hadn't realized levels had dropped so far.
So the next quest is to find a way to successfully and safely cause volcanic eruptions? If gas prices were lower I'd take more road trips which would help a little bit.
Can't wait until the burning of more fuel is the way to "save the planet".Infinity Art Glass - Fantastic local artist and Shocker fan
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Follow the logic here. I think I have a solution to all our problems regardless of where you stand.
Man is a horrible species. He kills animals, plows the earth, pollutes, etc etc.
Man is currently destroying his own environment and will ultimately make it uninhabitable for man to survive. (Possibly next year).
So, why don't the greenies just let us kill ourselves and be done and gone? Then the Earth can populate herself with all the nice species and man won't infest the Earth with our scourge.
Seems to me, if we care about the Earth, we should continue on our natural course of extinction naturally. Why would we want to continue to plague the fine Earth with our existence?"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Better have some sugar and water too, or else your lemonade will suck!Comment
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Very astute and very close. It’s not our existence that certain people are concerned with, it is YOUR existence.Originally posted by ShockerPrez View PostLivin the dreamComment
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Oh, yeah. That's right.Originally posted by wufan View Post"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Better have some sugar and water too, or else your lemonade will suck!Comment
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Legit question-- if the water levels are rising so rapidly, why do the elite, wealthy and well-connected keep buying massive, expensive waterfront properties?Comment
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The Washington Post
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes, (81°, 29").
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
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I must apologize. I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 100 years ago.Comment
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Was that really in the Post 100 years ago?Kung Wu say, man who read woman like book, prefer braille!Comment
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