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Originally Posted by AboveTheClouds
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Well let me get one thing straight I do believe that the earth is warming I just dont feel like we should be going through this huge "going green" bs its just a way for companies to get you to buy their products because they are eco-friendly. Even if its already happening it was bound to happen making less greenhouse gases will not change the outcome. |
Nopers, it's not. It is in some places, not in others. It's not a global warming, it's a climactic change. Global Warming just sounds scarier, so that's what they use.
When one area warms, the collision of warm air and cool air causes wind, which wicks quite a bit of heat away from some areas. When the hot air cools, it sinks, more wind, more heat being moved around. That's the reason people are worried about more hurricane Katrina events.
Well, if they're claiming it's heat affecting CO2, and not the other way around as well, they are. It's a reciprocal cycle. CO2 causes heat to be trapped, heat increases plant and animal activity, creating more CO2, which causes heat to be trapped, so on and so on.
Should be noted that one of the best ways to trap CO2, ironically enough, is to build more concrete structures and more paper libraries. Both trap CO2 when they cure, taking it out of the atmosphere. Alternately, you could bury thousands of trees, plants, and animals, as they also trap oxygen, a major component of CO2.
Also, rainforests, and plants in general, do little to stem CO2 production. They actually release as much CO2 at night as they take in during the day, leaving them as net-zero-producers of O2. Most CO2 is merely being released back into the atmosphere from whence it came so many millions of years ago. The best things to do for the climate would be to eliminate beef production, as cattle produce much more methane and CO2 than human activity does; to eliminate coal burning, as it causes particulate matter to be strewn into the air, making it unbreathable, radioactive (more rads from a coal plant than a nuclear plant); and to begin to restructure our building methods, creating arcologies rather than spread-out homes, which necessitate commuting and waste heat that could be used by multiple buildings one next to another.
Ethanol sucks, it costs more to make it than it produces in energy. Wind and solar aren't powerful enough yet. The Hydrogen cell is, as yet, a distant dream, like cold fusion. Hybrid cars are useful for saving money long-term (sort of, if you can get one for cheap and don't end up with an upside-down loan on the car you trade in), but, again, all the fossil fuels that are saved by using one are used further up the line in producing the cars.
Lowering CO2 emissions will not alter the climate, but it will give the biosphere time to assimilate the CO2 by various methods (dead plant matter being buried, oceans as heat and CO2 sinks, etc.), so it would be a good move, in addition to the lowering of particulates which are inevitably emitted with CO2, and cause the real problems to life.
The Hybrid Car / Global Warming Debate -
05-30-2008, 02:30 PM
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