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Man: I saw the threat of climate change & rising oceans as a call to arms...
Global warming - it’s sad that fear mongering and out right lies will get you a Nobel prize and a fist full of dollars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEJ5pHVKjiI
Carbon dioxide forms approximately 0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is essential to photosynthesis in plants and other photoautotrophs, and is also a prominent greenhouse gas. - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
0.04% - not 1% not 1/2% - a fraction of a fraction and the Chicken Littles want us to believe that we’ll soon be living on Venus ! ! !
nomad, that’s a complete non sequitur. The absolute tininess of the percentage is irrelevant if the relative increase matters.
If we gave you enough strychnine to account for .0383% of your body weight, you’d be dead before we finished. 100-200mg is fatal, which is 0.000293% of a 68kg (150 pound) person.
Our climate is in a relatively delicate balance, and so is our civilization. If CO2 goes up meaningfully, we won’t turn into Venus, but we could make our lives a lot more miserable and destabilize a lot of the world. But plants will like it. Sorry, I’m species-centric.
Strychnine might be a bad example, because strychnine is not an essential part of our make-up. Something like salt might be a better example; too much can kill you, but too little can kill you as well. We’re producing more carbon dioxide, and killing off the rain forests and algae fields that convert most of it back to oxygen.
It’s not merely that carbon dioxide levels are rising, but the rate of increase is rising dramatically. They were stable (about 0.025%) until about 1750, but slowly rose with the first industrial revolution, rose more rapidly throughout the 1st half of the 20th century, and have been rocketing upwards since the 1970’s. I posted a link to a graph in another cartoon a few days ago, but it’s your standard exponential parabola. We’re still under 400 parts per million, but the curve has us over 500 in just a few years, and 800 soon after that.
nomad2112 over 14 years ago
Again …
Global warming - it’s sad that fear mongering and out right lies will get you a Nobel prize and a fist full of dollars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEJ5pHVKjiI
Carbon dioxide forms approximately 0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is essential to photosynthesis in plants and other photoautotrophs, and is also a prominent greenhouse gas. - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
0.04% - not 1% not 1/2% - a fraction of a fraction and the Chicken Littles want us to believe that we’ll soon be living on Venus ! ! !
Motivemagus over 14 years ago
nomad, that’s a complete non sequitur. The absolute tininess of the percentage is irrelevant if the relative increase matters. If we gave you enough strychnine to account for .0383% of your body weight, you’d be dead before we finished. 100-200mg is fatal, which is 0.000293% of a 68kg (150 pound) person. Our climate is in a relatively delicate balance, and so is our civilization. If CO2 goes up meaningfully, we won’t turn into Venus, but we could make our lives a lot more miserable and destabilize a lot of the world. But plants will like it. Sorry, I’m species-centric.
benbrilling over 14 years ago
Chicken Little was right.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Strychnine might be a bad example, because strychnine is not an essential part of our make-up. Something like salt might be a better example; too much can kill you, but too little can kill you as well. We’re producing more carbon dioxide, and killing off the rain forests and algae fields that convert most of it back to oxygen.
It’s not merely that carbon dioxide levels are rising, but the rate of increase is rising dramatically. They were stable (about 0.025%) until about 1750, but slowly rose with the first industrial revolution, rose more rapidly throughout the 1st half of the 20th century, and have been rocketing upwards since the 1970’s. I posted a link to a graph in another cartoon a few days ago, but it’s your standard exponential parabola. We’re still under 400 parts per million, but the curve has us over 500 in just a few years, and 800 soon after that.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member over 14 years ago
Seriously, did anyone read all (and I mean ALL) of stripy’s list…from beginning to end?
I’m asking!
d_legendary1 over 14 years ago
Why bother froggie? Its a list of right wing fetishes.