Will you have to pay a carbon tax on your pet?

[vanilla ice]

Hadn't heard of it over here.

http://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/press/AnomalyReport.shtml

 

[dogman dan]

What a fun thread it's been. I have to make a few comments about cow farts. While CO2 is bad, and the cow food was some sequestered CO2, the farts are methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas. Methane is the problem with compost bins too, whether in your back yard or in the rainforest. CO2 gets unsequestered too, but the methane is super bad for greenhouse effect. I don't know what the answer is about climate change, but I suspect the more sucessfull approach is going to be adapting to what comes rather than trying to change it. I do get a laugh about people who worry their butts off about CO2 and ignore methane.

 

[julesa]

Dogman: methane is CH4. When people talk about the carbon cycle, or sequestering carbon, they're talking about methane, CO2, and other forms too. Like I said earlier, we don't need to worry about the carbon that was already in the system. Cows, compost piles, etc have been absorbing and releasing carbon harmlessly for eons. Those things aren't the problem. The problem is the new carbon that we are digging up and spewing into the atmosphere faster than it can be absorbed by the oceans and rainforests, which is mostly in the form of CO2.

 

[deronmoped]

What percentage of people believe in GW, say it's 50%, how come C02 emmisions have not decreased by 50%, or are they just all talk.

Deron.

 

[Reid Welch]

What percentage of people believe in GW, say it's 50%, how come C02 emmisions have not decreased by 50%, or are they just all talk.

Deron.

Talk, perhaps? But science, as dogman rightly points out, has given us mostly unvarnished revelations of reality:
Brass is copper and zinc. "god" or GWB did not discover this to be a fact. The pols tend to play upon the humans' natural tendency
to dismiss as "I don't see any problem here."

If in 1850, you asked a person writing by lamplight at night: can you see well to read and write by your crude oil lamp?
"I don't see in any problem here". Then one day the glass lamp sets a wafted, cotton curtain afire. Problem there, then:
some family died.

We cannot know for sure of anything, not yet...not unless and until a breeze of reality billows a curtain into the direct reality of a naked flame,
a taper of beeswax, if you will.

We go watch Star Trek, now on YT in its original quality. It is so easy to suspend one's disbelief, and believe that all of their Roddenberry-imaginary adventures are real;
the problem is, those are imaginary and unreal. CO and its variants, seem to be very real...and it is a fact that we, in the past two hundred and fifty years,
have de-sequestered countless tons of gaseous carbon...all in slow motion to us---but to the world, is there going to be a future shock?
Will, in fifty years, half of Florida be underwater again? The polar caps are melting, so they say. I think I believe the scientists, more often than I believe
Cheney-types, who never served their nation in time of need, not at all. They dodge facts just like they dodged the 'Nam draft.

Reid,
Volunteer enlistee, USNR, 1972.
I served on a real, live WWII ship.
And it...it...was a time I won't see again.

I won't see the Earth die.
But, Earth, it will see me off, most surely.

you can tell I've been watching Start Trek, on YT, perfect transfers, HD, CBS original tapes, authorized,
crystal clear as new, and as fabulous in their way, as the current episode, of some 172 episodes,
as the missing dilithium crystals "we must find" or else "our" ship will perish. :wink:

Meanwhile, pulse rate slow and BP very low.
Passive watching of TV lowers BP.
Writing, it rises twenty points in the systolic,
so, I log out again and go for make-believe Trek
and I won't worry about what I cannot change.

 

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“If you have a German shepherd or similar-sized dog, for example, its impact every year is exactly the same as driving a large car around,” Brenda Vale said.

Hey, BO....

How much in federal reserve notes do I get to trade in my old border collie for a mini dachshound pup from USK9, INC....?