Nothing can stop rise of CO2 level

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Humanity will talk about reducing greenhouse gas emissions and will implement various remediation programs with much fanfare, but levels of C02, methane, etc., are still headed up, and I think nothing can stop the climb.

Carbon trading, ethanol, and other initiatives are just sandbox play. Reminds me of recycling, which removes one or two used plastic bottles from the discharge end of the conveyor-belt of trash while five or six new ones are being added at the source end. You still have a huge net gain in total trash.

China, India, coal, coal-mine fires, melting permafrost, global deforestation, burning of the remaining oil and NG, and another 2-3 billion people by 2050. No combination of Band-Aid remediation programs can make more than a tiny dent in the assault of all that on the atmosphere.

RIP our civilization, killed by one-two punch of heat pollution and PO.
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parsifal · Tar Sands Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 46

This world is passing away.

gnm

And so we are left with the only choice nature has ever given us over the last 2 million or so years...

ADAPT OR DIE.

-G
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SoothSayer

I wouldn't be surprised if The Powers That Be do something drastic to reduce the population when the writing really is on the wall ... they might feel that they have no choice.
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Technology will save us!

Zardoz

gnm

WildRose · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 1048

C02 emissions is a huge problem in Alberta. Seven out of 10 of Canada's worst industrial plants for emissions are located in Alberta, with the top one, a coal plant, just outside of Edmonton. This information was in an article in the Edmonton Journal last week (sorry, can't provide a link). Of course, the article was tucked away in a spot beside the car advertisements or something so no one would see it. And I hate to think how much worse this problem will be as the tar sands are developed more!

It's terrible for the air quality, so many people with asthma, etc. Of course, the rivers are less viable and this beautiful province as a whole will take a beating. And the effects are, of course, cumulative for Mother Earth!

NEOPO

No need to bait conspiracy theorist on this board Wink

Kingcoal

Then why don't we just have a huge world wide party? I'm mean a real party, one keg per person. We could summon up enough resources to give every last man, woman and child a good artery clogging steak dinner, a keg of good beer and a couple good cigars. We could take it even further and bring back blood sports. How about death match football? None of this silly paying athletes millions of dollars and then saying that they are in a "slump" when they suck. How about you win then get your millions, or you lose then die. That would make for some really good games.

Of course those who refuse the hospitality shall be declared terrorists and will be shot on sight.
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SoothSayer

Heineken

A "major cull" of human population will happen anyway, Soothsayer, whether engineered by people or by nature.

"The planet" will survive us, albeit in altered form. Evolution will resume even if only a few tough forms of life survive.

I think the whole enterprise has become too large and complex for humans to exercise rational control over the trends now under way. The "destruct sequence" has been initiated and can't be stopped.
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"Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog

"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother

Concerned · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Sep 23, 2004 Posts: 1536

zberry · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 21, 2006 Posts: 135

Every 7 to 10 days, a new coal-fired electricity generation plant opens in China, providing enough electricity for a city the size of Tampa.

zberry · Heavy Crude Joined: Mar 21, 2006 Posts: 135

BTW, I didn't mean to imply Chinese are responsible for our present predicament, only that there is tremendous momentum in place that makes it clear global warming will only get worse.