Posted on 10/18/2020 7:07:54 AM PDT by Salman
While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in CO2 emissions -- larger than during the financial crisis of 2008, the oil crisis of the 1979, or even World War II. An international team of researchers has found that in the first six months of this year, 8.8 percent less carbon dioxide was emitted than in the same period in 2019 -- a total decrease of 1551 million tonnes. The groundbreaking study not only offers a much more precise look at COVID-19's impact on global energy consumption than previous analyses. It also suggests what fundamental steps could be taken to stabilize the global climate in the aftermath of the pandemic.
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If the Left ever gets power, imagine the lockdowns then. After all, climate change is an existential threat.
“It’s a minor drop in the increase in CO2. “
Says it all.
DROP IN THE INCREASE
just like Demorat budget, we cut ... cut the amount of the increase is still more than before.
This is forecast for our area which I thought interesting. I would print out but the guy who is a leftist as well as a NC legislator is very funny about his data (I don’t blame him). Ray is a professor at ASU awa legislator and owner of local weather website.
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Here is the forecast and analysis for this coming yr as well as a comparative analysis for yrs past. Also stuff about el nino etc
I’ve written to him for permission to archive this material to my email acct. He does not leave the winter forecasts up for very long.
http://booneweather.com/public/FearlessForecast.pdf
A couple years ago, Joel Kotkin (newgeography.com) wrote a column about the high government cost of homebuilding in California - thousands in fees that are built in to the cost of every new home. In the process, he interviewed a tech multi-millionaire about the barrier to home ownership this creates for ordinary families. This arrogant tech lord basically said “who needs ordinary families?” The multi-billionaire elites are building a world with robots and AI and self-driving cars and trucks that doesn’t require us “little people”. This is just more justification to eliminate us - to save the planet.
I would love to hear Pres Trump say at his next rally “oxygen, wonderful beautiful oxygen, you know what I’m talking about, right?” Then Brian the Eunic Stelter, Don Lemon and the rest of the fake news snowflakes will call for a “serious national dialogue” about the systemic racism of oxygen. And the BLM/ANQUEEFA types will organize a call to action and stage breathing strikes. From WE CAN’T BREATHE to WE WON’T BREATHE. Imagine that idiot leBron James wearing that on his jersey.
“Biggest carbon dioxide drop: Real-time data show COVID-19’s massive impact on global emissions”
Resulting in more hurricanes than last year. Bring back CO2!
When you are using parts per billion to justify your data, the number is so small that its bound to see a change.
“The dog barking in the night.”
There was no dog. Where is the commensurate cooling of the planet with the drop in CO2 emissions?
Well, it looks like China has finally done at least a little something to improve the environment.
Carbon 14 is about 1 atom in 10^12 atoms in the atmosphere. It is a good tracer. But it does not change the CO2 molecules composed of 12C.
Human 12CO2 is identical to natural 12CO2.
Isn’t California already under water? Thought that happened 10 years ago when the Ice Caps Melted
14C is however a great way to see the source of the carbon via the isotopic ratio. Fossil carbon is depleted in C14 via decay. It’s pretty simple science to mass spec a gas sample and know immediately if the carbon is atmospheric or if it has been out of the atmosphere by multiples of C14 Half-Lifes or so long that the C14 has all decayed away. Once diluted into the general atmosphere the burning of fossil fuels is gradually changing the C14/C12 ratio but some of the effect is compensated by increasing C14 production in the upper atmosphere via cosmic rays due to the increase in total CO2 content of the atmosphere itself. You can do the same analysis to methane. I did a Geochemistry study for some wells that had methane in them enough to burn off at the well head. We captured some and compared it to the natural gas coming from the shale wells a quarter mile away. Not even close to a match. The gas profile did match that of lignite coal from a near by seam that had worked it’s way into a well drilled through that lignite seam and the casing had corroded allowing penetration. Our professional findings were the contaminated wells had drilled through the same lignite seam with carbon steel casing. Given the sulfur preset in the coals and the introduction of oxygen into the system via drilling fluids that had been in atmospheric contact sulfuric acid had been formed which are into the steel casing allowing the coal bed methane into the water wells. Point is methane that has been in shales for a million plus years has a zero C14 count or part per trillion trace amounts.
I suspect the particulates in the air from recent wildfires will do more to cool the world off than that reduction in CO2, even if we could sustain the reduction long term. Those reductions in CO2 also denied many human beings many basic aspects needed for psychological, physical and spiritual health.
I wish president Trump would ask Biden to give the chemical formula for carbon dioxide.
My guess is Biden couldn’t do it.
Just setting the stage for the next "pandemic" that will affect the Earth: Climate Change (or Global Warming or Global Cooling ... whatever the hell today's descriptor of choice is)
Well outdoor water will. Of course we are mostly water as well but if we stay indoors we should be ok. :)
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