Innovating out of global warming

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by BigV

Hey mercy, remind me which one is you again, willya?

Neither, but I love the pic.

[TheMercenary]

Impressive picture:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n.../33983331.html

Companion article:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ng-arctic.html

[TheMercenary]

We really need a whole bunch of volcano's to go off or a good nuclear winter. That would reverse things.

[piercehawkeye45]

Minnesota was thinking of giving Gore an honorary degree; I don't think it happened though.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Minnesota was thinking of giving Gore an honorary degree; I don't think it happened though.

Great, have a big ceremony. Just the pollution from the reporters covering it would set things back a year.

[Hyoi]

Sorry, xo-cubed. Should have said:

Luckily, there are other options in that I wouldn't follow Mr. Gore to the feed store, much less give his solutions (which aren't his to begin with) a second glance. I'll not sweat while he eats ice cream, and mon ami, that is that...........

I like how no one talks much about cutting back on the beef & meat industry.
Methane is 25x the greenhouse gas CO2 is.

If it is such an emergency, then get committed people... they sky is falling, right?
Go vegan... dairy does the same thing!

[glatt]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I like how no one talks much about cutting back on the beef & meat industry.
Methane is 25x the greenhouse gas CO2 is.

If it is such an emergency, then get committed people... they sky is falling, right?
Go vegan... dairy does the same thing!

"When averaged over 100 years each kg of CH4 warms the Earth 23 times as much as the same mass of CO2, however there is approximately 220 times as much CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere as methane."
Wikipedia

While methane is a contributor to global warming, CO2 is a much bigger contributor.

[xoxoxoBruce]

True, cows fart every 30 seconds, times millions of cattle. Termites are still number one though, right up there with swamps. Maybe we should eat termites.

"220 times as much CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere as methane", but how did it get there, how fast is it increasing and why?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

True, cows fart every 30 seconds, times millions of cattle. Termites are still number one though, right up there with swamps. Maybe we should eat termites.

"220 times as much CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere as methane", but how did it get there, how fast is it increasing and why?

The increase in CO2 got there from fossil fuel use and changes in land use.

How fast is it changing? See graph below. The Earth was going through cycles of ice ages until the beginning of the industrial age, and then the CO2 levels just took off.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt

The increase in CO2 got there from fossil fuel use and changes in land use.

How fast is it changing? See graph below. The Earth was going through cycles of ice ages until the beginning of the industrial age, and then the CO2 levels just took off.

Didn't we go around on that before?
As I recall, cement production is as much a problem as anything.
From here, http://www.technologyreview.com/arti...imatechart.pdf

Termites are a little sweet with a smoky aftertaste.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Termites are a little sweet with a smoky aftertaste.

Crunchy if you roast them up.

[Happy Monkey]

Cows and termites collect carbon from plants and release it into the air. It is eventually reabsorbed by plants, to continue the cycle.

Fossil fuels introduce more carbon into the cycle.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Cows and termites collect carbon from plants and release it into the air. It is eventually reabsorbed by plants, to continue the cycle.

Fossil fuels introduce more carbon into the cycle.

Not carbon, methane.