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To: wideminded

Lot of time on your hands huh, LOL? OK so maybe I read the analogy wrong an eyedropper full.


63 posted on 12/08/2010 6:11:33 PM PST by pburgh01
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To: pburgh01; dila813; Coleus
Eyedroppers don't hold 300 drops.

But guess what. I realized that I made a big error.

The figure I gave for the metric tons of CO2 emitted in one year should actually be thousands of metric tons. link

So the correct equivalent volume of water is approximately 300,000 drops in an OSSP, or 15 liters, which is about:

4 gallons of water in an Olympic sized pool

I'm kind of an agnostic about AGW, but this figure doesn't seem so insignificant, especially when you think that it involves a substance that has been accumulating for 100 years and which may have an outsize effect compared with its relative volume.

Lot of time on your hands huh,

It seems worthwhile to point out misinformation when a figure is off by a factor of 200,000. It didn't take all that long.

(BTW the total CO2 in the atmosphere is equivalent to over 250 gallons in an OSSP.)

68 posted on 12/08/2010 6:46:31 PM PST by wideminded
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