All Solar, Et Al, In 12 Years?

[Randolph Kinney]

Air conditioning should be driving the world population rate.

Actually, the world has gotten warmer since 1750 according to the IPCC and climate scientists. I believe (maybe Pete does too) that men were driven to extreme animalistic behavior as the earth warmed.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130914-rape-asia-pacific-un-men-violence-women/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131007-sexual-violence-rape-teenagers-sociology/

Well, maybe not. Sorry, I return you to your normally posted climate change agenda.

 

[Meandering]

Now you've done it.

The thought of some posters

being driven to extreme animalistic behavior..........

I'm going to go watch a government policy video to clear my mind.

Thanks.

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[Randolph Kinney]

You guys should watch that video in post #616 if you want to see a real shocker. It refutes the president's knowledge about per capita guns versus the murder rate on a country by country basis.

 

[Meandering]

Henry Ford:

I don't have to know how to build a car.

I just have to know how to hire someone who knows how to build a car.

Same with the Prez.

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[Randolph Kinney]

https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/benefits-of-co2.pdf

In an important new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, former IPCC delegate Dr Indur Goklany calls for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he says has many benefits for the natural world and for humankind.

Dr Goklany said: “Carbon dioxide fertilises plants, and emissions from fossil fuels have already had a hugely beneficial effect on crops, increasing yields by at least 10-15%. This has not only been good for humankind but for the natural world too, because an acre of land that is not used for crops is an acre of land that is left for nature”.

Pointing to estimates that the current value of the carbon dioxide fertilisation effect on global crop production is about $140 billion a year, he notes that this additional production has helped reduce hunger and advance human well-being.

But the benefits go much further than this. It is not only crops that benefit from this “carbon dioxide fertilisation effect”: almost without exception, the wild places of the Earth have become greener in recent decades, .largely as a direct result of carbon dioxide increases. In fact, it has been shown that carbon dioxide can increase plants’ water-use efficiency too, making them more resilient to drought, so that there is a double benefit in arid parts of the world.

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

Folks that love money about all else certainly have distorted views on many subjects!

Feel terribly sorry for those of you with this mindset. But carry on--the humor is unrelenting!

 

[Meandering]

Contrary to what might be expected from environmental concerns related to global warming, CO2 (carbon dioxide) health effects and benefits for the human body are innumerable. Life originated and had existed on Earth for millennia under conditions of very high CO2 content of the surrounding air. According to published studies, CO2 content was up to about 7-12% in air when the first creatures with lungs were evolving. Therefore, these creatures could experience all CO2 health benefits that are listed below.

Note that very large CO2 concentrations (20% and more) produce adverse effects in humans and pure CO2 is a toxic gas. This web page is focused on typical or physiological CO2 levels in the lungs which range from about 20 to 50 mm Hg or from about 2.7 to 7.5%.

Having a normal level of CO2 in the lungs and arterial blood (40 mm Hg or about 5.3% at sea level) is imperative for normal health. Do modern people have normal CO2 levels? ? When reading the table below note that levels of CO2 in the lungs are inversely proportional to minute ventilation rates, in other words, the more air one breaths the lower the level of alveolar CO2.



Hypocapnia (CO2 deficiency) in the lungs and, in most cases, arterial blood is a normal finding for chronic diseases due to prevalence of chronic hyperventilation among the sick.

Furthermore, as we discovered before, over 90% of modern people (so called "normal subjects") are also hyperventilators (see the link below to the Hyperventilation Table with over 20 medical research studies related to normal subjects). Hence, chronic hypocapnia is very common for modern man.

Main CO2 health effects and uses in the human body
Follow the links for dozens of research references

- Vasodilation (expansion of arteries and arterioles). As physiological studies found, hypocapnia (low CO2 concentration in the arterial blood) constricts blood vessels and leads to decreased perfusion of all vital organs

http://www.normalbreathing.com/CO2.php

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[Meandering]

So now we have the Scientific Link Pete needed.

See the bar chart, far right?

Panic disorder possibly caused by global warming, leads to hyper-ventilation causing decreased CO2 in the lungs, causing constricts of the arterial blood vessels leading to decreased perfusion of all vital organs, including the brain.

See, it's all explained now.

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[Meandering]

2010 Government Study


The economic stakes in dealing with climate change are big and costs could escalate
dramatically, if the transition to a zero emission economy would have to happen fast.
Abandoning existing infrastructure is prohibitively expensive and as long as new technology is
not yet ready to be phased in, improvements and additions to the existing infrastructure will tend
to perpetuate the problem. For this reason alone it is important to consider the possibility of
capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air [1-4]. If capture from air would prove feasible,
one would not have to wait for the phasing out of existing infrastructure before addressing the
greenhouse gas problem. Technology for extracting CO2 from the air could be deployed as soon
as it is developed; it could deal with all sources of CO2, and it even could be scaled up to reduce
present levels of atmospheric CO2. Deployment of air extraction technology need not interfere
with other approaches to the problem. Avoidance of emissions, either through capture at a plant
or switching to non-carbon based energy sources would still make sense, but one would not have
to abandon existing infrastructure or construct a complex CO2 pipelining system in order to get
started. For the portion of the CO2 that is emitted from small and distributed sources, capture of
CO2 from the air may always the best solution.

Thus removing the CO2 from one cubic meter of air and disposing of it opens the door for generating 10,000 J of heat from gasoline anywhere in the world. Combined, these two actions are carbon neutral.

This approach to a net zero carbon economy works, because CO2 in the air is not harmful and
the natural amount in the air is large compared to the amounts human activities add on short time
scales. Current annual world emissions from human activities equal 1% of the total CO2 in the air. Since mixing times are far shorter than a year, one can use the air as a conveyer that moves CO2 from its source to its sink. As long as the total amount in transit is small compared to the air’s CO2 content, moving CO2 in this fashion to the sink would not unduly distort atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Locally, mixing is very fast and therefore local CO2 depletion or enrichment is not likely to pose a problem either. If this were not the case, emissions from power plants would cause large local deviations. In the same fashion as CO2 enriched air mixes rapidly with
ambient air to maintain constant levels of CO2, air depleted in CO2 will also mix rapidly and
return to ambient conditions. It is, however, this mixing rate which sets the limit of how closely
one could space CO2 extraction units

You will have the CO2 we let you have.

http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/01/carbon_seq/7b1.pdf

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[Cigar]

After the statement of Christiana Figueres that the goal of climate change is not to save the planet from ecological disaster but to destroy capitalism¹ shouldn't this discussion get right to the point of capitalism vs. socialism?


¹ http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...e-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism.htm