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Posted on 10/16/2008 3:34:41 PM PDT by xcamel
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=alHWVvGnkcd4&refer=canada
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Does that mean I have to stop breathing.
Good!! Then I hope he stops exhaling!!!
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Well that should be fun.
Carbon Dioxide is an essential gas in the makeup of the atmosphere. Without it all life on Earth would die.
It’s no more a “pollutant” than is Oxygen.
He is a piece of crap communist
It might be his plan. Kill off anybody that doesn't agree with him under the guise of "Saving the planet"
Did you see the EPA edict released today on lead levels which was ordered by a judge?
Stupidity erupts.
Barak could help the problem, stop breathing you fake!!
Yes, I did.
If it’s so dangerous, then why doesn’t he stop emitting it?
Does that mean he’ll shut his freakin’ Marxist piehole?
Freaking fool. What does that idiot think, plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen, that stuff we breath!.
Bring it on!
Placing heat-trapping pollutants in the same category as ozone may lead to caps on power-plant emissions and force utilities to use the most expensive systems to curb pollution. The move may halt construction plans on as many as half of the 130 proposed new U.S. coal plants.
Ping to numero ocho.
Do we have to hold our breath?
Sorry, but that doesn't make the argument.
Carbon is essential for life, but spewing carbon out in a nice sooty cloud is not free from regulation.
And if you released countless tons of oxygen, you would be causing downwind corrosion--and it would be regulated.
Something being natural and essential does not preclude if from being a pollutant...other objections are demanded, if we are to fight this on a factual, not emotional, level.
Is he going to wear a mask when he speaks? You could capture a lot of carbon emissions that way.
Stop breathing! The weeds are growing too fast!
You dear, are completely daft.
Obama will focus on eliminating humans on this earth starting with the USA. This will be the focal point in the start of a revolution. He will start with those who are unable to fend for themselves and work from there. The starting point will be the nursing homes and Social Security roles.
If you are over 80 or in a nursing home, you will be the first to go. As was in Star Trek, please report to a disintegration machine. It is your duty. The baby boomers had better watch out.
Carbon Dioxide is essential for plant life. Alert the Botanical Liberation front!
Vegans hurt most...
I say the people saying that CO2 will kill the planet need to set the example by offing themselves first to convince us it is worth doing...
Bingo!
I don’t get why he’s doing this now? He should own the environmentalists by now, and it risks alienating other voters.
If this passes as legislation, it could be the most destructive bill to be passed in United States history.
Because it was reported in a place that “is banned from access by freerepublic” -
Then stop making it d*** head!!!!
He should get in trouble for exhaling dangerous pollutants. It would be fun to try a citizens arrest. I bet the Secret Service guys wouldn't think it was too funny, though. Then again, maybe they would. It would relieve them from having to baby sit "the big o."
Actually, conventional coal plants don't emit soot, and they don't emit flyash (unless there is a malfunction). Good combustion prevents soot, a precipitator or baghouse captures flyash, combustion control reduces NOx, a scrubber can remove sulphur, mercury, and nitrogen compounds. Conventional coal plants are really cleaner than the anti-coal people want to admit.
The term "clean coal" is typically used to mean newer design boilers where pollutants like sulphur are captured before they even enter the flue gas stream. There may still be flyash in a "clean coal" process like a CFB boiler. These type of boilers still require a baghouse or precipitator.
What the general public really means when they talk about "dirty coal" is the conventional plants of old, which burned coal without any controls at all. These do not exist anymore with maybe one or two exceptions. These days they have added CO2 as a pollutant from "dirty coal" to maintain the villainization as the emissions of coal plants continue to get cleaner. This is just BS.
He said that while exhaling carbon dioxide.
Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. This declaration by Obama only appeals to hardcore environmentalists and is, at least arguably, risky in its appeal to other voters. Isn’t this sort of political move done early in a campaign when a candidate tries to rally his base?
The point is that once the government can declare CO2 to be a pollutant, and has the power to regulate it, there is virtually no aspect of human activity over which it can be denied from exercising authority and control.
Big money from the NRDC, and the Sierra Club...
Scrappleface?
If this is for real, he needs to be institutionalized not voted for.
Obama is a clueless moron.
Gondring, you have your head firmly planted where the sun don’t shine. CO2 as you say is essential and natural. so how can it be a pollutant also? CO2 comprises less than 4% of the atmosphere, which is low by historical standards. more CO2 equals more luxuriant plant life. we need more, not less CO2 for better crop yields. you combine soot with CO2, as if they were the same. CO2 is colorless, and odorless. Geez!!
Is there any other kind????
I know I am a sinner, but a polluter as well?
Oh, the humanity.
Exactly. And carbon dioxide is only present in trace amounts. A recent estimate is 380 parts per million, up from about 320 ppm 50 years ago. No one, I repeat, no one, knows how much CO2 is present due to industrial activity.
The Gorons and other socialists such as BHO talk about “greenhouse gasses” as if they were all the evil output of capitalism. In fact, greenhouse gasses are normal and essential to keep the earth warm enough for humans. One of the major greenhouse gasses is water vapor. Another is methane, which comes primarily from cows and Democrats.
The earth’s climate is very poorly understood by scientists, except of course the pseudo-scientists who think they can predict the sea level at New York City 70 years from now. Our climate experts can’t even accurately tell us where a hurricane will land in 48 hours.
Obama in the White House with the Democrat Congress would saddle the United States with economy-killing new regulations and taxes in their religious Jihad aimed at non-existent, man-made, “global warming”.
CO2 levels were much higher in the past. Flora thrived, Fauna thrived. World was a warmer, wetter place. But that was long ago, things will be getting cooler from now on, as they have been for eons. The thought that man can affect this sytem to any extent is brilliance or sheer folly.
He’s going to start taxing us for breathing. F@cking socialist pompous ass.
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