How far will the left go in fighting "man-caused global warming?"?

Question

Since we exhale CO2, increasing our "carbon footprint," will they someday require us all to wear breath counters and those who exhale more than the law allows will pay a breathing tax? Would they curtail cardio workouts and all sports for producing too much breathing and exhaling?

Now I realize the true meaning in the film's title, "Waiting to Exhale." Maybe they'll make it like the power companies: Peak time during the day and off-peak at night...hence, we'll all be waiting to exhale.

To Shoop:

Only during the day. At night, trees expire CO2. Once the left realizes this fact of science, they'll start chopping down trees.

It is a rant. Isn't a science-conservative entitled to rant once and a while?

To Justin D: There are quite a few PhD scientists who have made that accusation...not just non-scientists.

To Pasha T:

Apparently, it's not politically correct to teach true biology today. Thus kids today believe plants only "breath in" CO2 and never "exhale" any.

Cellular respiration is the process in which organisms, including plants, convert the chemical bonds of energy-rich molecules such as glucose into energy usable for life processes. The equation for the oxidation of glucose is:

C6H12O6 + 6 O2 —> 6 H20 + 6 CO2 + energy

Translated: "Burning" the stored sugar (that had been created by photosynthesis, which did consume CO2) requires oxygen and gives off water vapor and carbon dioxide.

Cellular respiration occurs in plants and algae during the day and night, whereas photosynthesis occurs only during daylight. Therefore at night, the plant is putting CO2 back out and not taking any in. Over 24 hours, it's true plants consume more CO2 than they produce.

I do hope that the left does teach that fact in school and that perhaps you were out sick that day.

Answer 1

How far will the Left go to fight "man-made global warming"? Just look at the kooks in Belgium. They have approved a tax on outdoor grilling. Yes.... a tax on GRILLING. They plan to monitor compliance from helicopters, fitted with thermal sensors to detect burning grills.

Are these people insane? (oh wait, we're talking about the nutty Left. Sorry, my bad)

Pasha T makes an interesting point, but since the world used to be a veritable greenhouse of rainforests, the composition of vegetation has changed a lot. Considerably more of the world used to be forested, and even in the fairly recent past, Spain used to have huge swaths of forests, before they chopped it all down in their bid to be a huge colonial power.

Another thing he forgets is the Alaskan tundra. This area should be an environmentalists dream: thousands of miles of pristine vegetation as far as the eye can see. Only problem: it emits huge, absolutely huge amounts of CO2. If we really wanted to reduce CO2, we'd have to send Al Gore up there with a few million gallons of defoliant and kill it all. How's that for "An Inconvenient Truth", Al?

If we don't start educating the nutty Left, we'll soon have to grill in our basements, and buy carbon credits at the supermarket to pay a "sin tax" on that outdoor, heated pool.

Answer 2

Mike W, where did the carbon you exhale come from?

It came from plant and animal matter that you ingested. This carbon is recycled. No, trees do not "exhale" CO2 at night. I have no idea where you got that bit of misinformation. Trees pull carbon out of the atmosphere. Then they die, or burn, and the carbon goes back. So the carbon goes back and forth. As earth's biomass remains fairly constant, the total atmospheric CO2 content remains relatively unchanged.

During the permian (300 million years ago) a lot of carbon was pulled out of the atmosphere and sunk into fossil fuel deposits. A lot. A lot more carbon ended up in limestone formations. This carbon is sequestered, or was, until we began releasing it.

We have been carefully monitoring atmospheric carbon levels for the last 50 years. We also have carbon gasses trapped in ice core samples going back hundreds of thousands of years.

There may be a few environmental whackos leaping on the global warming bandwagon. If there are, too bad. The plain and simple fact is that science clearly demonstrates man's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions IS significant. Those who ignore these scientific findings do so at the peril of us all. I'm sure if these modern day polyannas had lived back in Roman times, they would be telling everyone that drinking wine from lead goblets was perfectly safe, and they'd be just as smart as they are now.

Answer 3

no remember if climate substitute is going on and no remember if guy is accountable for that's not significant. Why? simply by fact India and China will unload extra toxins into the international over the subsequent 50 years than united statesa. and Europe ever did in the process the final 2 hundred years. and no-you could or will stop it. China is bringing a sparkling coal fired ability plant online a week or 2. united statesa. brings one or 2 on consistent with 3 hundred and sixty 5 days.

Answer 4

Dude, did you forget about trees!!!

Exhaling is not a problem cause we have trees!!!

Where were you educated?

Update:Bollocks!!! Trees produce oxygen and reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

And this rant is hardly scientific!!!

Answer 5

I find it ironic that people who know virtually nothing of the science of global warming and are interested only in the politics are the ones to accuse scientists like myself of having a political agenda.

Answer 6

The biggest causes of methane is cow flatulence and rotting leaves. All we have to do to end global warming is eat more meat and tear down the rain forest.

Answer 7

Too far. This "cause" has been completely hijacked by the anti-capitalist movement.

Answer 8

Seems more like a rant that a question.