Re: Making Money on the Global Warming Crisis
- From: "ynotssor" <ynotssor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:15:04 -0700
"s_knight8" <s_knight8nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> quoted some article in message
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What happens as the earth's temperature goes up? Increased
urbanization, growing GDPs and demand for all the niceties that come
with "civilization" have a price: more CO2 emissions. Deadly CO2
emissions, which raise the earth's temperature, poison our air and
kill our plants (and us), are very likely going to turn this earth
into a potboiler before the century ends.
Speaking of increased urbanization, one seldom mentioned "greenhouse gas" is
[H]CFC, the chlorinated flourocarbons that make possible modern-day
refrigeration. These are very large, manufactured molecules that have an
electromagnetic absorption spectrum that includes terrestrial infrared
radiation.
Due to the size of the molecule and its number of atomic bond lengths, each
[H]CFC molecule is capable of absorbing over 25,000 times the infrared
energy of a single CO2 molecule, both of which must re-radiate that infrared
energy in all directions, including back to the surface of the planet, which
raises the thermodynamic equilibrium temperature, a.k.a. "global warming."
That is, each liter of [H]CFC is equivalent to over 25,000 liters of CO2 in
terms of "greenhouse gas" capability. To help visualize that, a room
measuring 12ft by 16ft with a 9ft ceiling, filled with pure CO2, contains
the same global warming capability as a 2 liter soda bottle filled with
[H]CFC at the same temperature and pressure.
Despite US Federal regulations concerning the disposal and handling of
refrigerant gases, there are still very vast quantities escaping into the
atmosphere, such as in automobile crashes that include AC units, but that's
miniscule when one considers that China vowed in the 1990's to "have a
refrigerator in every household by 2010." Guess what happens to the
refrigerants when the units get trashed?
Those past global warming epochs referred to in the article you quoted most
certainly did not include the monumental effects of the [H]CFCs, but they
are substantial contributions to the encroaching warming, and mostly
ignored, as I'm sure this post is the first that most of you have ever even
heard of it.
Oh sure, almost everybody has heard about the chemistry of the CFC molecule,
which contains an external receptor site that strips away the extra oxygen
atom (free radical) from the stratospheric ozone (O3) which absorbs the
incoming ultraviolet light, leaving a stable O2 molecule which doesn't
absorb the UV. That problem of CFC chemistry was "solved" by filling the
hungry receptor site with a hydrogen atom, creating an HCFC that didn't
disturb the ozone, but that contained an additional atomic bond with dipole
moment in the molecule that absorbed even more IR.
The chemistry problem was solved, but the physics were made even worse, and
there probably isn't a single person outside the atmospheric science
community that has any idea of the physics involved. We certainly never hear
about it in the news media, what with the "dumbing down" of society and all.
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