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reply posted on 21-12-2005 @ 03:48 PM by TJ11240

Coal-burning power plants, automobile exhausts, factory smokestacks, and other waste vents of the human environment contribute about 22 billion tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the earth's atmosphere each year. Animal agriculture, manure, natural gas, rice paddies, landfills, coal, and other sources contribute about 250 million tons of methane each year. About half of human emissions have remained in the atmosphere. The atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 have increased by 31% and 149% respectively above pre-industrial levels since 1750. This is considerably higher than at any time during the last 650,000 years, the period for which reliable data has been extracted from ice cores. From less direct geological evidence it is believed that CO2 values this high were last attained 40 million years ago. About three-quarters of the anthropogenic emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere during the past 20 years is due to fossil fuel burning. The rest is predominantly due to land-use change, especially deforestation.

Taken from
Wikipedia Article on Global Warming

This site reports that greenhouse gasses are at the highest levels in over half a million years. Its time we stopped turning away from this fact and started doing something about it.

As for TDP, the federal Energy Policy Act now grants a dollar per gallon tax incentive on turkey biodiesel. This technology will see success sooner in Europe than anywhere else because of the Kyoto Protocol. Also, the US government is behind this, having provided half the construction funds for an entire plant.


reply posted on 21-12-2005 @ 11:48 PM by zappafan1
Originally posted by TJ11240

Coal-burning power plants, automobile exhausts, factory smokestacks, and other waste vents of the human environment contribute about 22 billion tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the earth's atmosphere each year. Animal agriculture, manure, natural gas, rice paddies, landfills, coal, and other sources contribute about 250 million tons of methane each year. About half of human emissions have remained in the atmosphere. The atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 have increased by 31% and 149% respectively above pre-industrial levels since 1750. This is considerably higher than at any time during the last 650,000 years, the period for which reliable data has been extracted from ice cores. From less direct geological evidence it is believed that CO2 values this high were last attained 40 million years ago. About three-quarters of the anthropogenic emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere during the past 20 years is due to fossil fuel burning. The rest is predominantly due to land-use change, especially deforestation.

Taken from
Wikipedia Article on Global Warming

This site reports that greenhouse gasses are at the highest levels in over half a million years. Its time we stopped turning away from this fact and started doing something about it.

As for TDP, the federal Energy Policy Act now grants a dollar per gallon tax incentive on turkey biodiesel. This technology will see success sooner in Europe than anywhere else because of the Kyoto Protocol. Also, the US government is behind this, having provided half the construction funds for an entire plant.


WIKI is not correct in all cases, being relatively new, and growing.... a fact that was brought to me in a discussion on Sweden

Go to the links and read the information... it'll only take a day or two. Over 12,000 scientists worldwide can argue the the merits on the information you provided. Their intellect, scientific databases, and common sense is something
we should defer to, I would think. They have nothing to gain by being contrary.
Mount Pinatubo put more Co2 (and other, true greenhouse gases) into the atmosphere in two days than we did in the entire industrialized revolution. Americas air now is cleaner than it has been in over 100 years... without Kyoto; something even Clinton threatened to veto if brought to him (probably because he couldn't figure out a way to make millions from the deal.... but that's another issue.)


reply posted on 16-5-2008 @ 12:25 AM by regeya
Sorry to revive an old thread...

Saw someone mentioned Kunstler. See, the thing I don't appreciate about Kunstler is that, if he were dictator of the world, we'd start doing without a lot of things humanity has taken for granted for a long time, in some cases centuries, possibly millenia, to have a small chance of turning around climate change in a century or so. No, I'm not just talking about oil, I'm also talking about international trade (definitely centuries in the least, though there's millenia-old evidence of trade between China and some South American tribes) medicine, education, anything resembling life of the last few hundred years. Maybe it's necessary, but I rather hope not; I'm hopeful we can do what we've always done as a race and just adapt and transform.

No one solution will be a one-size-fits-all solution. I could see the results of this being used as a lubricant, perhaps. Here in America, we need to build up public transportation as well as a more efficient parcel service. Power can and should be produced by solar, wind, nuclear, and so on. Towns should be relatively car-free. Cars and trucks should be largely either a luxury or the mode of transportation for rural America (and powered by electric, stored-heat steam, and so on) and international trade should go back to smaller vessels with passive power for most the trip. Diesel should be reserved for short-distance freight hauling.

Having said all that, hey, I think it's a great idea, as long as we're not doing away with recycling and no-till farming to feed the oil habit.

[edit on 16-5-2008 by regeya]
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