Comments on: Carbon Dioxide Totally Harmless????

By: bongstar420

bongstar420 — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:23:03 +0000

By the way….Can we say Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors, Power Satelites, and possibly Hot and Cold Fusion Reactors? Yeah, screw that energy scaricty business. I’m in it for the big time, long term game.

By: co2

co2 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:28:09 +0000

remaining other things constant….. if we assume that co2 is harmless..
so shouldn’t we stop our self to do lousy things.
shouldn’t we bring cleanness in society by reducing carbon footprints?

By: bongstar420

bongstar420 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:06:19 +0000

Everything is natural…that dont mean that it is harmless. Harm is relative to the observer. Good for me dont mean good for you. I dont buy into co2 forced global warming as there is not enough observation in my opinion to determine what the main forcing agent is of yet. But Im totally for getting our co2 counts down cause those techs are primitive and past their time.

My contention is that dropping co2 for global warming concerns is the wrong reason for the correct action. LAME, but whatever. I guess whatever gets the job done right!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:34:52 +0000

Brad, that is an extremely dangerous statement you have made. I’m tempted to delete it. I is simply not true that concentrations of C02 are not medically very dangerous.

Your statement about water vapor is equally uninformed but not as dangerous in the proximate sense. But of course, ignorance about scientific matters has been demonstrated to be bad over the medium and long term.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:19:13 +0000

Breathing pure carbon dioxide will most certainly result in death due to lack of oxygen. CO2 poisoning happens over time when exposed to small but toxic levels of the gas as it permeates the cell tissues. Oxygen deficiency will kill the average person in minutes, not even remotely close to enough time for Carbon Dioxide to poison the victim. In fact, attempting to breathe pure CO2 results in respiratory failure/paralysis, the muscles just stop responding to input. Its not possible to breathe it.

Either way, CO2 should be the least of our worries in this global climate change craze. Its one of the worst performing greenhouse gasses on the list. In following with this, water vapor is the best performing greenhouse gas that is in any measurable and viable quantity in the atmosphere, some estimates put it at ~25x more effective than CO2 when compared evenly. i.e. 1 part H2O will hold ~25 parts heat, while 1 part CO2 will hold only 1 part heat.

Yet you don’t see any legislation pertaining to reducing water vapor emissions now do you?

By: chrisj

chrisj — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:10:54 +0000

Arsenic and potassium cyanide are both naturally occurring substances, too. Presumably she thinks they’re harmless?

By: Jackal

Jackal — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:46:00 +0000

Dang, my comment still hasn’t gotten through. Don’t like my html?

By: Mike Haubrich, FCD

Mike Haubrich, FCD — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:59:45 +0000

I don’t think we need to put her in a room of CO(sub 2) when a paper or plastic bag would do just as well. After all, she would only be breathing in what she was expiring. What could be more pure than that?

By: Cootamundra W

Cootamundra W — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:33:09 +0000

“I don’t think her homeschooling taught her how to read decimals.” Don’t disparage all homeschoolers in this way. Bachmann graduated from public school in MN – HOWEVER she did attend Oral Roberts for “college”. (Disparage THAT all you want – I’ve met other people attended ORU. It would seem that upon arrival they perform some “God miracle” that keeps those people from ever being able to think clearly.)
She obviously has no idea what factchecking entails.
“Michelle Bachmann: Queen of Innumeracy” – I second that!

By: Kieran

Kieran — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:47:53 +0000

All politicians should be required to know all the common logically fallacies. Then, whenever they use one, they should be lose speaking privileges for one week.

I have a feeling that would make congress a pretty quiet place.