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Posted By ConquistadorForLife 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The decision marks a major change from the Bush presidency, when the EPA argued it could not regulate CO2 because the gas was not a pollutant.
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CHAM6 months, 3 weeks ago
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A very interesting take on things. Since CO2 is the life force for plant life, and the byproduct of plant life absorption of CO2 itself has a byproduct called oxygen, I wonder what the government is going to set the ratio of CO2 to O2 to be?. And I guess more importantly, how are they going to maintain it?
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Personally I have wondered which came first - the chicken or the egg? Since the beginning of time the earths climate has risen and then cooled off or possibly the other way around.
But my real question was since the Heinrich events always show that CO2 is in association with the rise and fall of the temperatures, was it that the temperature rise released more CO2 or did the rise of the CO2 cause the temperature to go up?
Anyone interested probably should do some reading involving Heinrich events. And what effect did the Human Industrial activity have on the rise and fall of temperatures prior to the Human Industrialization?-
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When looking at past relations between CO2 and temperature its been seen that CO2 follows temperature rise. This is because there is increases plant activity as well as a lot of melting ice which release tons of CO2. The tricky thing about now is that we're releasing enough CO2 so that it looks like temperature is following the CO2. But its hard to tell whether the temperature would have been rising anyway, or if its because of all the unnatural CO2.
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CHAM6 months, 3 weeks ago
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cloud. Thanks for your comment. I was unable to discern which was first, the CO2 rise or the temperature rise. I am assuming that all CO2 rise up to the front end Heinrich leading into the cool off into the Little Ice Age that began in the 1300's and ended around 1800 are really the result of natural fluctuation. I don't believe Industry had enough influence then to cause a change.
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But I have run into a scientific study recently (In Scientific American)that shows that the CO2 rise attributable to Human input for the last five years is 3.7% of the annual total increase. That tended to make me think that the CO2 increase was following the rising temperature, however some Climate Chaser might think that 3.7% of the 100% is significant. And it just might be - who really knows. I for one don't think it is.
I believe this article is a good illustration that "the sky is falling" mentality foments the idiocy that seems to drive these mandates.
I wrote an article on this subject two or three years ago and my point in the article is that the public was going to lose in either condition - whether Global Warming was correct or incorrect. We either lose to unnecessary government mandate that cost us or we are faced with an oncoming event that 3.7% of the influence might not be enough to stop the warming.
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