Global warming pollution in overdrive.
By on May 21st, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Global warming pollution in overdrive.
“The rate of carbon-dioxide emissions from global industry has accelerated in recent years, outstripping even the highest earlier projections,” a new National Academy of Sciences report shows. From 2000 to 2004, “about 7.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide were emitted by industry world-wide,” millions more than the IPCC had projected “under its most extreme scenario.” More from McClatchy.
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I wonder if they also include the carbon dioxide in soda pop and beer? Or is it impolite to question those sources of gas?
May 21st, 2007 at 9:22 pmThere are also more and more people exhaling.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:28 pmWith an extreme concentration emanating from a mid-Atlantic coast city.
Virginia Beach?
May 21st, 2007 at 9:30 pmwashington DC
May 21st, 2007 at 9:33 pmAnd we keep mowing down trees here in this country to build crappy houses that are squished too close together and repetive big box retail centers. It’s not just the trees in the Amazon that are important.
Also, we cannot continue to outsource pollution to third world countrys. If they trade with us, countries should me required to meet OUR pollution standards (the Pre-Bush pollution standards that is.)
May 21st, 2007 at 9:54 pm**clearing throat**
TP, please correct your mis-spelling of polution — it should be pollution.
Proofreading is good!
May 21st, 2007 at 10:07 pmI don’t own any waterfront property.
I have survived 120 plus temps in the middle east. It’s not too bad.
You or I can’t do anything to stop the warming.
Why worry about it?
May 21st, 2007 at 10:15 pmIs that irony, Couldn’t? If not, screw you and any children or grandchildren you may have now or will ever have.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:17 pmComment by Couldn’t care less! — May 21, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
Cuz it’s just all about you, you, you, isn’t it? You’re the only inhabitant of the whole earth…
May 21st, 2007 at 10:26 pmZooey:
May 21st, 2007 at 10:31 pmYour humanity is obvious to anyone who reads TP. Ignore this clown.. Actually strike that thought. Kick this clown’s sorry intellectual ass
#1
May 21st, 2007 at 10:32 pmSoda yes. Beer never!
Cuz it’s just all about you, you, you, isn’t it? You’re the only inhabitant of the whole earth…
You take that back…. I’m the only inhabitant of earth, your all figments of my imagination.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:34 pmOh, Christ, squegee is back. Can we order a new troll?
May 21st, 2007 at 10:42 pmYou take that back…. I’m the only inhabitant of earth, your all figments of my imagination.
Comment by squegeebooo
I will not take it back, Squeegy, you must learn to share. You’re imagination only involves naked women and trampolines, what are you implying? :P
May 21st, 2007 at 10:47 pmOh, Christ, squegee is back. Can we order a new troll?
Shouldn’t your kind say ‘Oh, Olbermann’ or ‘Oh, Clinton’ I don’t think Jesus would want non-believers taking his name.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:48 pmZooey:
Your humanity is obvious to anyone who reads TP. Ignore this clown.. Actually strike that thought. Kick this clown’s sorry intellectual ass
Comment by dbadass
Heh. Thanks.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:49 pmI think I’ll ignore the clown. It’s just Mr President anyway. :-D
I don’t own any waterfront property, but I’m a patient man.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:51 pmNo, squeegee, I will say what I want. If “oh, for f!cks sake” good enough for you? By the way, screw your Jesusboy. Not like you follow his teachings anyway, hypocrite.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:52 pmJesus has never given me a hard time about taking his name.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:53 pmOh, Christ, squegee is back. Can we order a new troll?
Comment by JPark
Squeegy’s not a troll. He’s more like a fly buzzing around delicious honey. We’re the honey. And he sooo wants us, but is too afraid to land. :D
May 21st, 2007 at 10:55 pmJesus has never given me a hard time about taking his name.
Comment by heyzeus
No trouble with Zeus either? :-D
May 21st, 2007 at 10:55 pmZooey, no way he wants to land anywhere near me.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:02 pmThe government, dems or repubs, have no intentions of doing anything to stop pollution.
Do you know what we, as the little people, can do to stop it?
Other than destroying a few refineries or power plants and stopping people from driving gas guzzlers with only one person in them by running them off the road. I don’t know what else I could do.
What are you doing?
May 21st, 2007 at 11:05 pmWow, Couldn’t, you ignore all points of view, all suggestions because you yourself don’t want to make any sacrifices. Good job, there.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:10 pmAnd the right wingers still act like this is no big deal. Shameless.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:30 pmNo, squeegee, I will say what I want. If “oh, for f!cks sake†good enough for you?
If you wanted to say it, why use a ! instead of an i?
He’s more like a fly buzzing around delicious honey.
Eh, fair enough.
Zooey, no way he wants to land anywhere near me.
Too true, even fly’s have some standards.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:41 pmToo true, even fly’s have some standards.
Comment by squegeebooo
Heh. You’re funny, Squeeg. Are you working late, or posting from home? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you here at night.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:47 pmCareless:
Carpooling
Buying locally (former organic farm owner)
selective purchasing
hybrid driving
no tv owning
minimal meat eating, sustainable fisheries grubbing
until recently free range poultry/pig raising/ no antibiotics
no cell phone, gaming and assorted coltrain and other mineral intensive usage using
happily screwing but not exceeding replacement contribution to population
and most importantly…
Educating the youth as to how to avoid the myopic “I am so little , what difference does it make” mentality.
Go check your tire inflation and think about what you are doing. In little is much. The forces of coporate consumerism shill this idea that an individuals contributions are too little to matter.
“When the kids are united, they will never be divided”
May 21st, 2007 at 11:48 pmsqueegee, um, I didn’t use an I because it would be deleted. Not tough to understand.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:48 pmsqueegee, you have no standards. If they give you attention you are HAPPY!!! Positive or negative, it doesn’t matter.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:49 pmJPark. From what I have read, Squeegee is like that funny pal of yours, that is cool to hang around in a bar or if there is beer involved. But, in the middle of serious conversation, is the guy that gets bored and starts throwing napkin balls to get attention.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:51 pmZooey, no way he wants to land anywhere near me.
Comment by JPark
Zooey is too charitible. I think squiggy is more like a mosquito. Better swat him before he bites.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:53 pmI agree Shane, even a gnat like him needs a good swatting.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:57 pmRead this. You need to know.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:17 am“When the kids are united, they will never be dividedâ€
Comment by dbadass
Wow. I just ride the bus and don’t watch the television. I could be doing more of that “happily screwing” thing, though.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 amUntil people get it through their superstitious minds that developed countries cutting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by over 90% by 2050 (for a 50-50 chance at avoiding dangerous warming) is unrealistic, no serious discussion is possible on the subject.
Imagine a WWII Concentration camp with the Nazi prisoners skin and bone starving, hollow eyes dully staring at you. But, this group spreads out as far as the eyes can see-there is an ocean of eyes staring at you, blaming you for their pain and misery.
Why? Because you could not imagine any solution but the unrealistic and weak mitigation strategy of cutting GHG emissions. You couldn’t advocate any other solution, because you thought any price was worth paying to stop what has caused this horror. The problem is that the people who had to pay for the only “solution” you advocate refused, causing gridlock. Because of your stubborn, inflexible, and foolish refusal to consider a realistic solution, those people are doomed to their pain, misery, and despair.
The only solution for global warming is to remove the CO2 from the air after it has been emitted. Nature has to be improved using genetic engineering-perhaps seeding a GMO into the ocean. Imagine opening the gates of that Concentration camp and letting those tortured people out to enjoy the bountiful fruits of a healthy climate. There is still time to get realistic.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:43 amThe Feds are currently considering providing $ 34 billion in low interest loans through the rural electrification program to build new dirty coal electric plants that would undue all C02 reducing efforts made on local and state levels.
The Fed never leads on anything. Neither Dems nor Repugs will do anything. We are just getting happy political talk.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:30 amAldous Huxley wrote an essay 50 years ago called Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Read it. Watch for the bit about us living like drunken sailors in a Golden Age. This crisis we’re facing has been in the minds of scientists and thoughtful people for a very long time.
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:24 amBush needs to Push his war on Oil with fear so expect NO greener technologies till Bush leaves Iraq
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:02 amThe massive increase has come mostly from China. We have decided that China’s emissions don’t matter because they are “developing”. So much to do about nothing I guess. Pretty sad.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 amActually, to here pResident Tush tell it, China’s admittedly astronomical emmissions are being used as the excuse for the US not to curb emissions.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:08 amAnd, yes, China is developing, and we can’t slow them down, otherwise how could Tushie afford his war?
well , the good part of global warming
is that people in Africa can start a good economie on air-conditions (on solar energy) and start offices in good climate buildings instead of staying outside and do nothing because it’s too hot
so they can join the industrial world, of where their problems will melt as snow for the sun
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:25 amYeah, global warming happens. So what? Eons ago, global cooling happened too - we called in the Ice Ages. That was caused due to “human” activity as well? Quit whining about this and try to innovate out of the problem - invest wisely and live well. In the meantime, stop feeling guilty about “pollution”. Pollution is as natural a concept as the human being or the rare insect you are trying to save for some godforsaken reason!
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:36 amsome insects aren’t worth saving, and deserve the Hits
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:31 amDon’t worry, eventually the climate will stabilize and the pollution will be removed once humanity is cleansed from the planet or reduced to manageable numbers (
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:57 am