Global Warming Cont...

[saltydawg]

Urgent action needed to curb CO2 emissions because of the threat to the oceans. Comments?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/sc...cean.html?_r=1

[arkansasbob]

Ah, the key words are "near zero." Of course, it going to cost money but I suspect that it will be a heck of a lot cheaper than injecting it into the ground.

sure, it's a lot cheaper than packing it in a rocket and sending it to mars, too.

[saltydawg]

sure, it's a lot cheaper than packing it in a rocket and sending it to mars, too.

Why in the blazes would anybody want to ship CO2 to Mars for?

[arkansasbob]

Why in the blazes would anybody want to ship CO2 to Mars for?

exactly.

[saltydawg]

exactly.

Here's an interesting article about chemical technology and CO2.


http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTe...conversion.asp

[ChipDog]

Get over it already. Man is completely powerless over God's creations. He could snuff out the sun with one major volcanic eruption and freeze all mankind to death within days. And all the clean coal, wind power and carbon credits in the world would not buy one more day.

Why are you people wasting your energy on this matter? Man is not responsible for the condition of the Earth. God has a plan for the Earth and no one, not even Al Gore can influence it. God never told man to take good care of the Earth when he gave it to man. From God’s own words about the matter he made it clear that the Earth was to be used by man and all that was on earth was for man. When God decides the time has comes for the Earth to end, it will be by God's power and not one thing that we have done will make even a tiny impact on it.

(Genesis 1:26) God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

(Genesis 1:28) God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

(Genesis 9:2) God said, "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand."

[arkansasbob]

Here's an interesting article about chemical technology and CO2.


http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTe...conversion.asp

what, exactly, is interesting about it?

[saltydawg]

what, exactly, is interesting about it?

I thought that colored picture of the atoms joined together was neat.

[saltydawg]

small-scale nuclear reactors:

http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.c...ews081208.html

[arkansasbob]

small-scale nuclear reactors:

http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.c...ews081208.html

cool. will you let them build one in your back yard?

[saltydawg]

cool. will you let them build one in your back yard?

Sure if they pay me a reasonable rent.

[arkansasbob]

Sure if they pay me a reasonable rent.

your payment will be reduced electricty costs and reduced sulfur and particulate pollution.

[saltydawg]

your payment will be reduced electricty costs and reduced sulfur and particulate pollution.

.......not to mention reduced CO2 emissions.

[saltydawg]

Australian bushfire out of control

http://therebeller.blogspot.com/2009/02/australia.html

[saltydawg]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...efer=australia

Firefighters in Victoria and neighboring New South Wales state, where 50 fires burned yesterday, are looking to cooler weather to help fight the blazes. Temperatures in Victoria reached a record 46.4 degrees Celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit) in Melbourne on Feb. 7 before a southerly front started yesterday to move across Australia’s southeast.
Many of the latest deaths occurred around the towns of Kinglake, St. Andrews and Wandong, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of the state capital Melbourne, where the fire front stretched to 80 kilometers.
“Kinglake’s ceased to exist for all intents and purposes,” Moray Sharp, a local realtor, told the Age newspaper. “I can’t explain anything other than that it was like a sustained bombing attack, that what it was like with the noise,” said Sharp, who lost his home in the blaze.
The dead include Brian Naylor, who was the top-rated television newsreader in Melbourne for 28 years before retiring to his Kinglake property in 1998.
The nearby town of Marysville, with a population of about 500, has been virtually destroyed with the loss of homes along with its school, pub and police station.