Re: Climate change poll for NORTH AMERICANS.

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:05:16 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Kimmes
<slikwilly1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 22, 12:41 am, bub <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

please see the graph from 600 million years ago to present day
 that shows co2 levels and global temperatures.

At the bottom of that chart, where it goes 600...500...400 they are
talking about millions of years there. It should really say
600,000,000....500,000,000....and so on.

Here is a better chart......this one is 'thousands' of years, not
'millions', you know..... a planet earth that supports OUR ecosystem.
I think you may be able to notice the spike.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_Dioxide_400kyr.png

Yes, it is frightening, isn't it?
As if that spike at the end of the chart isn't enough, they even label
it and tell you that it's the Industrial Revolution what done the
dirty deed.

But then, here's a little cite for you that could possibly make you
less frightened.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/co2_fairytales_in_global_warmi.html

(Much material omitted here for brevity)
But let us continue.

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Getting back to the chart above, please note the Blue Line denoting
Global Temperature when compared to the Black Line (CO2
concentrations) appears to have little correlation. Indeed, simple
observation reveals how much warmer it has been in the past (~20-22o
C), and for longer periods of time, compared to today (~14o C.)
whereas CO2 concentrations have been steadily declining. CO2 does not
cause Global Warming.
These findings are exactly opposite to what AGW alarmists hysterically
declare.
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To further demonstrate how insignificant CO2 gas is as a factor of
AGW, consider the following chart. Once again a picture is worth a
thousand words.
As shown below, human or man-made additions to the whole global mix of
greenhouse gas is only 0.28% (shown in blue).
Of that amount, man-made CO2 represents only 0.117%, or a little less
than half of the 0.28%.
Man-made sources of other gases contribute the rest, or 0.163% of the
0.28% to the total of human additions to global greenhouse gases. Now,
contrast CO2 with the 4.72% gases derived from oceanic biological
activities, decaying plants, animal activity, etc (shown in green),
and water vapor (shown in red), a whopping 95%!


This means that 99.72% of the greenhouse effect is due totally to
natural causes. Even if we wanted and there was some scientific
reason to do so, any attempt to remove all human activity from the
equation (least wise CO2 with its 0.117%), would have little impact on
climate change or AGW.


Ironically, water vapor as a global greenhouse gas isn't even
discussed in the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Instead the reports concentrate on the alleged evils and trepidations
of CO2.
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To nail the coffin shut on this one, let's look at some other friendly
facts about CO2 that we shouldn't forget:


1. Each year 186 billion tons of CO2 enter the earth's atmosphere.
Of that, only 6 billion tons are from human activity (3.2%).
Some 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and
the rest from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.

2. CO2 is an odorless, colorless, and tasteless gas. The CO2 that goes
into the atmosphere does not stay there for long. It is continually
recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth's oceans -- the great
retirement home for most terrestrial carbon dioxide. The buffering
capacity of the oceans is enormous. The oceans currently contain about
50 times as much CO2 as the atmosphere.

3. Plants absorb CO2 and emit oxygen as a waste product. Humans and
animals both breathe oxygen and emit CO2 as a waste product that helps
keep our bodies' pH normal.
It works out nice for all those involved.

4. CO2 is a nutrient to plants, not a pollutant. Plant-growers
introduce more CO2 into their planting sheds when they want to
stimulate growth. And all life -- plants and animals alike -- benefit
from more of it. All life on earth is carbon-based and CO2 is an
essential ingredient.

5. CO2 has great personal importance to us biologically and medically.
Red blood cells convert CO2 to H2CO3 (Carbonic Acid) and Bicarbonate
ions. Carbonic acid is used to help off-load body acids, keeping our
pH healthy. When you expire CO2 from your lungs, CO2 is removed from
your blood. As the blood looses CO2, blood levels of Carbonic Acid
drop, causing the blood to become less acidic (raising blood pH).
Without this profitable exchange, we would die.

6. Prolonged hyperventilation (rapid, deep breathing) releases so much
CO2 through the lungs that our blood level of Carbonic Acid are
drastically lowered, leading to alkalosis. Hypoventilation (slow,
shallow breathing) produces a build-up of CO2 in the blood. The
resulting rise in Carbonic Acid levels can become high enough to
produce acidosis.
But mild hypoventilation can be useful when a person panics,
encouraging them to hypoventilate by breathing into and out of a paper
bag, or by sitting down and simply breathing slowly. As the person's
CO2 levels rise, the resulting acidosis inhibits neurons enough to
relax the body and calm the mind, restoring normal breathing.

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Heh.
I just had to break in here and recommend that the people who are so
panicked about AGW should breathe into a paper bag for a little while.

Sorry for the digression.
I seen my chanst for a snarky comment, and I took it.

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7. As an added caveat, when CO2 is frozen and placed in water or a
punch bowl for kids' parties, it evaporates so rapidly it appears to
boil, producing a milky-white gas that's really cool...
You would have thought that the AGW crowd would have picked a more
menacing, threatening, less friendly and helpful character-molecule
than CO2 to scare us into effectively being taken in by their carbon
footprint tax scam.
But the AGW poster child of CO2 has failed miserably in this regard.
CO2 is not the nemesis that the warming alarmists would have us
believe.





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