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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3
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I don't know how that 98% is figured but it would be part of the CO2 that is released from natural sources. My info is that plant decomp is about 30% of the natural sources.
About 87% of the human part of our CO2 is from Big Carbon.
This site might help. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given. Edited by AZPaul3, : Restated for more accuracy. I hope.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3
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I suspect the science will get shaky. Science doesn't shake. Only denialists shake...and lie and misrepresent the science. Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Faith writes: We're doing our part already. But the US is NOT doing its part.
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ICANT Member Posts: 6769 From: SSC Joined: Member Rating: 1.5 |
Hi Percy
Percy writes: But will technology enable us to adapt to our transformed world? Pardon my pessimism, but given that year after year we can't even control wildfires in the west, and we'll certainly never be able to control hurricanes and tornados and droughts and floods and rising seas, I doubt it. What about the enlargement of the sun? How do we fix that? God Bless"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3
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The expansion of the sun won't affect this planet for 500 m to 1 b years. We have more immediate concerns in the next 200 years.
Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Now I can't find the 98%. This drives me crazy. But I found 90% on the MIT page:
. In fact, the natural decay of organic carbon contributes more than 90 percent of the yearly carbon dioxide released into Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. It doesn't confine it to a percentage of natural sources. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Science doesn't shake. Only denialists shake...and lie and misrepresent the science. Not on the level of atomic particles, but on the level of statistics and predictions and even estimated percentages of atmospheric gasses the human factor can be very shaky.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
The US has reduced our carbon emissions and our air and water are both cleaner than in other nations. (Just as an aside, I heard the statistic yesterday I think that the plastic refuse that is littering the oceans is 80% from Asian nations, the rest from western nations. In the same report it was said that science is working on ways to dissolve plastic to solve this problem. I wonder what the dissolved chemical remains will be.)
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Yet the current Administration is actively working to increase the US pollution.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
So when you have the new figures please report them.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I don't know how that 98% is figured but it would be part of the CO2 that is released from natural sources. My info is that plant decomp is about 30% of the natural sources. About 87% of the human part of our CO2 is from Big Carbon. This site might help. I'm struggling mightily to read anything lately, my eyes are getting that bad. Would it be possible for you to quote the most relevant parts of that site? Thanks.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I already provided the news stories to you Faith.
And as you certainly should know, what other nations do is absolutely irrelevant; the US can only control what the US does. What we can do is actually join in through treaties to mitigate the effects of Global Warming and reduce the pollution that the US produces.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
On this forum we end up having to repeat things many times because others missed them. Sorry but that's the reality. It drives me crazy too. If your posts aren't on the subject I'm pursuing at the moment while I have a dozien others to deal with, sorry but I may miss them. So if you want me to see something you've already posted, post it again.
No we can't control other nations but if our input into the problem is just a tiny fraction of theirs and the overall effect is just about nil, stop bugging the US about it, you are only asking us to commit suicide.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Faith writes: No we can't control other nations but if our input into the problem is just a tiny fraction of theirs and the overall effect is just about nil, stop bugging the US about it, you are only asking us to commit suicide. Sorry Faith but that hopefully is yet another of your dictates to ignore. The US input is still major and certainly intentionally getting worse and so must be curtailed. AbE: [indent][/quote]Human activities are responsible for almost all of the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over the last 150 years.[/quote][/indent] Direct from the EPA quote: Yet the current administration is encouraging the use of coal and to prohibit improvements in fuel economy and exhaust emissions and to sue car manufacturers who agree to those reductions. Edited by jar, : see AbE:
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ICANT Member Posts: 6769 From: SSC Joined: Member Rating: 1.5 |
Hi Paul
AZPAUL3 writes: The expansion of the sun won't affect this planet for 500 m to 1 b years. We have more immediate concerns in the next 200 years. If the sun is getting bigger everyday why will it not effect the earth's temperature for 500 m + years? Are you saying that the earth is not growing every day and that growth does not effect the temperature of the earth? The last numbers I can find says the earth will not be able to support life after 1 billion years. That means the temperature has to be rising now. But they will rise faster as time progresses. God Bless,"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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