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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: ballsalsa] 1
#21650799 - 05/07/15 09:10 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: ballsalsa]
#21897441 - 07/04/15 04:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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co2 is a greenhouse gas that affects the overall balance. look at Venus
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: Tybg] 1
#22863021 - 02/04/16 10:09 AM (7 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: mycopathy]
#24142144 - 03/06/17 07:39 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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All of that carbon.. Locked away for millions of years... Suddenly thrown back into the atmosphere.. The system is already struggling as it due to our farming and harvesting practices, it's already having trouble recycling what it would produce naturally, without us unlocking millions of years worth of CO2 trapped in fossilized organic material.
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: TempestDnB]
#24142146 - 03/06/17 07:39 PM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Oh my god this is a year old
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: Dick_Piss]
#24231200 - 04/09/17 08:33 PM (6 years, 9 months ago) |
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Much good but simple simple.
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Climate change is something we've come to understand with a 97% consensus among the scientific community that it is caused by anthropogenic green house gases such as carbon-dioxide. We know that gases like this act to reflect the Suns infra-red radiation back to Earth which traps more heat in the atmosphere.
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: Ziran] 3
#24408189 - 06/15/17 03:48 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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There's a lot of talk of "saving the planet" on this forum - a typical short-sighted worry.
With respect to global warming, we are talking about saving ourselves. The planet will continue on long after us. Life will continue on this planet long after us. Our climate has changed significantly over the course of human emergence. Before humans it has been through many stages where the climate would have been entirely inhospitable to humans, yet life carried on. So long as there are bacteria in the oceans, life will survive, evolve, and thrive on this planet.
It is our EXTREMELY fragile, extremely comfortable standard of living - our infrastructure, our economy, our civilization that is going to be ruined by global climate change - and interestingly - the people who have most to lose in that respect are the ones contributing the most AND denying it will happen! Its not a question of saving the planet, its a question of avoiding a life of destitution and suffering of your children and their children. What happens when grocery stores can't keep their shelves stocked? Chilling to think about. How many here have tried to grow their own food? I bet 99% of people who have never tried would starve the following winter if it became necessary - severe weather patterns aside.
On another note, something nobody has mentioned that is worth saying - while CO2 is not toxic (as the OP alluded to), overall, the gasses and particulates released from burning coal are toxic. Cadmium, mercury lead and other heavy metals literally rain down on the northeast from midwest coal plants. Also, the big fancy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are released, which are carcinogenic.
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: Psilosophy328]
#24419149 - 06/19/17 10:09 PM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a toxic gas at high concentration, as well as an asphyxiant gas (due to reduction in oxygen). Irritation of the eyes, nose and throat occurs only at high concentrations.
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: Psilosophy328]
#24419793 - 06/20/17 07:50 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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Psilosophy328 said: There's a lot of talk of "saving the planet" on this forum - a typical short-sighted worry.
With respect to global warming, we are talking about saving ourselves. The planet will continue on long after us. Life will continue on this planet long after us. Our climate has changed significantly over the course of human emergence. Before humans it has been through many stages where the climate would have been entirely inhospitable to humans, yet life carried on. So long as there are bacteria in the oceans, life will survive, evolve, and thrive on this planet.
It is our EXTREMELY fragile, extremely comfortable standard of living - our infrastructure, our economy, our civilization that is going to be ruined by global climate change - and interestingly - the people who have most to lose in that respect are the ones contributing the most AND denying it will happen! Its not a question of saving the planet, its a question of avoiding a life of destitution and suffering of your children and their children. What happens when grocery stores can't keep their shelves stocked? Chilling to think about. How many here have tried to grow their own food? I bet 99% of people who have never tried would starve the following winter if it became necessary - severe weather patterns aside.
On another note, something nobody has mentioned that is worth saying - while CO2 is not toxic (as the OP alluded to), overall, the gasses and particulates released from burning coal are toxic. Cadmium, mercury lead and other heavy metals literally rain down on the northeast from midwest coal plants. Also, the big fancy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are released, which are carcinogenic.
while there is much of value in this post, it ISN'T just about saving ourselves. many plants/animals will be negatively impacted, if not killed, due to slight changes in temperature or air-quality. with the plethora of fungi/bacteria able to decompose, and the plethora of plants respiring, the atmospheric conditions could be considered much more gentle and accommodating to a wider variety of life than in the past. that being said, it means that the life that has evolved/survived to this current time is [likely] more susceptible to smaller amounts of change. obviously this statement isn't fool-proof, as some species may thrive in what humans (and many other species) would consider "harsher" living conditions. in this case, the perspective IS about us.
i'm not even going to go into ocean acidification/de-oxygenation, which will further destabilize insect populations, and so on
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: demiu5]
#24422952 - 06/21/17 06:15 AM (6 years, 7 months ago) |
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Things will adapt and evolve.. all of this locked away CO2 that we are releasing could make for some pretty lush stuff a few million years from now when we're long gone. If intelligent life like us ever emerges again on this planet, I wonder what they will think when they observe the evidence of this mass extinction. Probably volcanoes.
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: TempestDnB]
#24655986 - 09/24/17 12:31 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Nobody has yet been able to tell me what is the most important greenhouse gas.
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: Spanishfly]
#24655991 - 09/24/17 12:32 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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water vapor, by a number of metrics of importance
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Re: Can someone explain why CO2 emissions are harmful? [Re: Spanishfly]
#24657607 - 09/25/17 01:12 AM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thats a weird category to rank greenhouse gasses in. Importance? Is this another one of your tests to see if we are worthy?
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