Carbon Dioxide
Two years ago we lost our dog of 13 years. We have always had a dog but after the last I felt that I did not want to buy another puppy.
A puppy takes a lot of care. You must feed it, make sure it has water, take it for walks, play with it, teach it to interact socially, take it to the vet and spend a lot of time with it.
Yesterday I opened a can of worms that I have been trying to avoid since I started this BLOG–politics and Global Warming.
They are intertwined.
Now that I have, I must follow through on a series of related articles….or look like an idiot.
In short, yesterday, “I Bought a puppy”.
The planet is warming. There is enough good data to support this at the present time. We do not know if it will continue to warm up or if it will start to cool.
So far this winter some seriously cold weather and snow have been seen around the world.
In the 1970’s the fear was that the planet was cooling.
As I said yesterday it is cyclic and unpredictable.
There are greater amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere today than there had been as shown by measurements in core samples from ice.
Whether the Sun started the warming cycle a couple of centuries ago and people are adding to it now is a possibility.
Warming of the northern regions releases carbon dioxide from the permafrost along with a far more effective greenhouse gas, methane.
Glaciers are melting. That too is verifiable.
Iceland and Greenland are volcanic in nature and some of the glacial melting can be coming from the rock under the ice and not just the atmosphere.
Science is full of symbols and numbers. Symbols frighten some people but they are “shorthand” for abstract concepts: momentum, energy, force etc.
Numbers indicate magnitude or quantity.
I will try to keep these at a minimum
Most people have heard of “Carbon Dating”.
There are three isotopes of carbon. An isotope has the same chemical properties but different internal configuration for an element.
Carbon 12 is the most common form of carbon and about 99 % of all carbon exists in this state.
Carbon 13 makes up most of the rest.
But there is also Carbon 14, a radioactive form that disintegrates to about half of itself in 5600 years. This is termed, “Half Life”.
Carbon is the major constituent of plant life and it is from this that we derive all of our common energy sources, our hydrocarbons: firewood, coal, oil and natural gas.
No matter what hydrocarbon that we burn to extract the energy that the sun originally put into it, the by-product is water and carbon dioxide.
By measuring the residual carbon 14 contained in ice samples we can determined when that carbon was captured and stored.
Ice core samples do indicate that the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has been increasing during the period of the industrial revolution and the increasing population on the planet.
It seems obvious to conclude that people are the cause.
Maybe but maybe not.
If the Sun triggered this warming trend agriculture would spread and populations would grow because there is more food to support them. It may be a corollary rather than a cause.
I am in total agreement that we must reduce carbon emissions but not catastrophically destroy our ability to lead reasonably comfortable lives until we really understand what is happening.
I will continue with this subject in a series of articles that deal with power generation, electric vehicles and nuclear energy.
“Stay tuned for the next thrilling episode of…. Will the World Turn?”.
Is the planet warming? That’s the big question. You might have people in both Europe and America seriously debating that subject now. You have to be very careful on who you listen to on that point. You can obviously discount personages such as Al Gore. They’re making money on this “rag”.
But for argument’s sake, let’s assume that it is in fact warming. The second question is how much are we contributing to the effect and how much is the natural cyclic variations causing the problem, if in truth, it is a problem at all.
My opinion can be stated quite briefly. Our influence is similar to applying a 2″ strip of scotch tape to a basketball. How much do you feel that it will influence a shot from the free throw line?
Whenever there goes up a enormous cry over some human postulation the first question you must always ask is, “who’s going to be making the money”. Answer that question first and then determine who’s making the most noise. Should the two happen to concur then it’s reasonable to suspect the motives.
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