Global Warming is Natural.

Saturday, 21. June 2008, 10:19:31

Of course the ice caps are melting! It is because we are still coming out of the last ice age. Historically the Earth has been without the ice caps several times before and so it is to be again.

Man's carbon emissions are not helping us at all, but they are paltry to what the Earth is doing. As the planet warms up the perma-frost is thawing out and releasing huge amounts of carbon monoxide which is 25 times more damaging to our atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Also the Earth's magnetic field is weakening apace and that protects us from solar radiation.

Instead of spending billions of dollars trying to colonise the Moon or Mars (unsustainable) it would be intelligent to spend the resources on adapting to global warming - for everybody on the planet. Every day we are on this Earth counts because we are blessed by the very joy of our living existence.

I have had a wonderful day today.Talking to Plants.

Comments

I don't know...I think that we should go to Mars, as I think it may be from where we came. Don't laugh. Something really big hit Mars about 500,000 years ago. Colonists from there may have come here. I see that you and I are on the same page about global warming. A lot of my friends say that "We are causing it", but I think that it is happening as a natural cycle. It is Hubris to think that we are the cause of it. If we are the cause of it, then we should be able to stop it, and we can't. Therefore, we didn't cause it, but we may be helping it along a little.

By Captivevet, # 21. June 2008, 20:18:39

Sorry to hog up your comment section but I have some breaking news.
My Editor (who is in Italy, by the way), just Emailed me back my manuscript. I have downloaded it to a disk and tomorrow I will get it printed out at a print shop. The thing is over 200 pages and I don't want to beat up on my own printer.

By Captivevet, # 21. June 2008, 21:09:18

Tyler, you can 'hog up my comment section' all you please (I am not using it all!)

I am always glad to hear from friends.

Great news that your MS is getting moved on towards publishing. It must be very satisfying to see the fruits of your labour in hard copy.

By Skip247, # 21. June 2008, 21:28:43

Yes it is satifying. Now I am all sweaty...I just got back from a seriously fast bycycle ride. I can get over 20 mph on some of these hills around here.

By Captivevet, # 21. June 2008, 22:33:26

I am glad to hear that you are cycling (and doing it with some gusto, by the sound of it). I used to enjoy cycling a lot, but now I am unable to after a brain stem stroke effected my balance.

You must let us know how the book progresses now.

By Skip247, # 22. June 2008, 09:50:21

Oh no! Just coincidence, but my third ex-wife had a brain-stem stroke. I salute your progress back. I have a pretty good idea of what you went thru. This A.M. I am going to go to the printers and have a hard copy of the MS made.

By Captivevet, # 22. June 2008, 11:20:48

carbon monoxide which is 25 times more damaging to our atmosphere than carbon dioxide

Not to mention, its TOXIC...

By Shaunak, # 29. June 2008, 03:38:48

Yes, but carbon monoxide is unstable and will quickly grab another oxygen atom to become stable. That is about all of the chemistry I can remember from school.

By Captivevet, # 29. June 2008, 04:19:57

Yes, but carbon monoxide is unstable and will quickly grab another oxygen atom to become stable. That is about all of the chemistry I can remember from school.

No such luck sorry...

Quoting: http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/CA/carbon_monoxide.html

Stability
Stable. May react violently with oxidants; readily forms an explosive mixture with air. Extremely flammable. Note the wide explosion limits.

Toxicology
Toxic by inhalation. Odourless and colourless, so no indication exists of its presence in a room. May impair fertility or cause harm to the unborn child. Delayed adverse effects possible. Typical LTEL 50 ppm, typical STEL 300 ppm.

In fact for that reaction to occur,
ie. 2CO + O₂ -> 2CO₂
By my calculation you would have to supply 566 kJs of energy.
Transalation: You'd have to heat it then it would explode!

By Shaunak, # 29. June 2008, 05:01:54

No...I am correct. And it isn't explosive.

By Captivevet, # 29. June 2008, 05:07:37

Ah well...
Imm not about to verify anyway!

My life's dear to me!

Edit: It must be explosive, for its used as an industrial fuel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_reaction

By Shaunak, # 29. June 2008, 05:09:20

It is a by-product of burning fossel fuels, particularly gasoline, but even charcoal briquetts give it off. I didn't mean to imply that CO isn't dangerous. It it one of the reasons the Ozone layer keeps getting holes in it.

By Captivevet, # 29. June 2008, 12:06:02