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Originally posted by pasiphae
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you get run off and chastised for falling for the "conspiracy". but what if the conspiracy is that you've been tricked into falling for the big corporations say in things that it's all okay?
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what if the planet is like our body? you can't shove crap in it every day and expect it to continue to work right. it takes care and proper balance.
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Successful indoor growers implement methods to increase CO2 concentrations in their enclosure. The typical outdoor air we breathe contains 0.03 - 0.045% (300 - 450 ppm) CO2. Research demonstrates that optimum growth and production for most plants occur between 1200 - 1500 ppm CO2. These optimum CO2 levels can boost plant metabolism, growth and yield by 25 - 60%
Smog is a kind of air pollution; the word "smog" is a portmanteau of smoke and fog. Classic smog results from large amounts of coal burning in an area caused by a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide. Modern smog does not usually come from coal but from vehicular and industrial emissions that are acted on in the atmosphere by sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog.
Photochemical smog
In the 1950s a new type of smog, known as photochemical smog, was first described.
This forms when sunlight hits various pollutants in the air and forms a mix of inimical chemicals that can be very dangerous. A photochemical smog is the chemical reaction of sunlight, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere, which leaves airborne particles (called particulate matter) and ground-level ozone.
Nitrogen oxides are released by nitrogen and oxygen in the air reacting together under high temperature such as in the exhaust of fossil fuel-burning engines in cars, trucks, coal power plants, and industrial manufacturing factories. VOCs are released from man-made sources such as gasoline (petrol), paints, solvents, pesticides, and biogenic sources, such as pine and citrus tree emissions.
This noxious mixture of air pollutants can include the following:
nitrogen oxides, such as nitrogen dioxide
tropospheric ozone
volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
peroxyacyl nitrates (PAN)
aldehydes (RCHO)
All of these chemicals are usually highly reactive and oxidizing. Photochemical smog is therefore considered to be a problem of modern industrialization. It is present in all modern cities, but it is more common in cities with sunny, warm, dry climates and a large number of motor vehicles.[1] Because it travels with the wind, it can affect sparsely populated areas as well.
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Originally posted by GrandHeretic
There is most definatly climate change occuring...if you want proof, just read up on how the permafrost in the ground of the artic is melting faster than you can say holy hooker boots batman.
The tree line is moving faster north accross the arctic tundra. The actual tundra is transforming into trees....
The errosion taking place along the artic coastline is tremendous and accelerating.
The summer ice sheet will be gone entirely within the next 5-10 years at the north pole...then look at the animals that depend on said ice sheet. polar bears, walrus, seals, and my ex-wife all have to stay along the coast line due to the distance of the ice pack from shore.
Just take people out of the equation entirely and look at the other life forms on this planet and tell me that climate change is not happening.
Originally posted by pasiphae
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what if the planet is like our body? you can't shove crap in it every day and expect it to continue to work right. it takes care and proper balance. otherwise you are setting yourself up for possible cancers. no? a doc would never recommend for you to smoke, drink, and eat big macs every day. it's not good for you. so why is it okay to do that to the planet?
i think it's not and it really bums me out that people don't seem to care.
Originally posted by pasiphae
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it really confuses me that so many here are so pro big corporation.... and that's what funds the "global warming is a hoax" junk science. i've watched it progress over the last couple of years to a level of inexplicable insanity.
7:00AM GMT 03 Nov 2009
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Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.
The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.
The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.
The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.
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Originally posted by GrandHeretic
Granted, I can agree with that......
As for the change coming.....I have my lawn chair, sunscreen, arm floaties, and a bottle of beam situated in my drinking helmet.
Lets get ready to rumble....
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Another member by the name of Outland who used to put in pictures how impossible it is for atmospheric CO2 content to be the culprit for the hotter temperatures used to show it this way.
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post by Outland
The image below illustrates to scale all of the GHGs in the atmosphere rounded up to 400PPM (0.04%) -not including water vapor- as indicated by the red area.
Compare that with atmospheric oxygen for perspective...
Compare that to nitrogen for perspective...
Of that 0.04% of GHGs, the gray part of the magnified red area is human based...
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BTW, the grey area in the last two pictures is actually smaller when you add in water vapor which accounts for up to 1% of atmospheric gases meanwhile CO2 accounts for 0.038% - 0.039%, and that's without mentioning that we do not know the exact amount of CO2 which is natural, and which is manmade
edit on 21-6-2012 by ElectricUniverse because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
First of all, the whole "let's blame mankind for the warm weather" fiasco was named "Anthropogenic (human based activity) Global Warming, meaning that the HOT temperatures were blamed on mankind. Later on as the culprits of this scam started to notice that there were extremes in both HOT and COLD temperatures the name was changed to "Global Warming, or Climate Change".
Luntz:
"Global Warming suggests something more cataclysmic, Climate Change suggests something more gradual, something that takes place over time. Global Warming is more frightening. Climate Change is less so."