http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/carbondioxide/ en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:08:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393488/posts This was never about the environment. It was just about the money, and nobody even bothered to check one of the most important things at the root of the whole debate.Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the tiniest of trace gases in the overall total environment. It is one element in the overall mix of Greenhouse Gases. Almost all those GHG is water vapor. CO2 is only 388 Parts per million, which is only 0.0388% of the total Atmosphere. CO2 is absolutely essential for life on Earth.To more easily visualize what this amount is, consider that whole room as the total Atmosphere.... PA Pundits - International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393488/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:08:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393091/posts Junk Science: Hacked e-mails from Britain's Climate Research Unit are only the latest evidence of climate fraud. Just ask NASA's James Hansen about the faking of climate data or EPA employees about the suppression of climate fact. For years, noted scientists and other global warming skeptics have been accused of being on the take, their research tainted and funded by grants from Big Oil and other fossil-fuel interests. Now, it turns out, it's the warm-mongers who are fudging the numbers and concealing the inconvenient truth. We don't know who "Deep Throat" is. But according to an interview in Investigate Magazine's... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393091/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:46:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391174/posts While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president. In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress. During those two years, the Joyce Foundation gave nearly... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391174/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:45:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391179/posts Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December. It will be a very cold winter of discontent for the warm-mongers. The climate show-and-tell in Copenhagen next month will be nothing more than a meaningless carbon-emitting jaunt, unable to decide just whom to blame or how to divvy up the profitable spoils of climate change hysteria. The collapse of the talks coupled with the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to put... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391179/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:01:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385207/posts Control: The House and Senate climate bills contain a provision giving the president extraordinary powers in the event of a "climate emergency." As chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. If you thought the House health care bill that nobody read has hidden passages that threaten our freedoms and liberty, take a peak at the "trigger" placed in the byzantine innards of both the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill and the Kerry-Boxer bill just passed by Democrats out of Sen. Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee. As Nick Loris of the Heritage Foundation points... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385207/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384059/posts Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This remarkable colonisation is having a beneficial impact on climate change. As the blooms die back phytoplankton sinks to the sea-bed where it can store carbon for thousands or millions of years. Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384059/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:01:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384033/posts New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now. This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected. The results run contrary to a significant body of recent research which expects that the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans to absorb CO2 should start to diminish as CO2 emissions increase, letting... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384033/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:31:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383621/posts New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to... PhysOrg.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383621/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:41:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377902/posts Junk Science: The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list. He asks us to commit economic suicide while he rakes in millions from his green investments. 'Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," Al Gore's sequel to his 2006 tome "An Inconvenient Truth," came out Tuesday. Printed on recycled paper using low-VOC (volatile organic compound) ink, it will undoubtedly be a best-seller and on the desk of every attendee at next month's climate change conference in Copenhagen. In a press release announcing the book, the Oscar-... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377902/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366275/posts Earth: An environmental writer mainstreams an idea floating around the green fringe — save the earth by population control and give carbon credits to one-child families. Are we threatened by the patter of little carbon footprints? New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin participated in an Oct. 14 panel discussion on climate change with other media pundits titled "Covering Climate: What's Population Got To Do With It?" People who need people they are not. In a recently rediscovered book, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," co-authored with Malthus fans Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Holdren wrote that families "contribute to general social deterioration... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366275/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:01:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361010/posts Public Discourse: Our energy secretary applauds and encourages companies to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on climate change. Should any Cabinet secretary, with the powers of government behind him, be threatening U.S. companies? Part of the climate-change mantra is that the debate is over and the science is settled. Just to make sure, environmental groups have sought to pressure businesses to go green or at least keep silent. Now it would appear the whole weight of the federal government is being thrown behind this campaign to coerce and silence real and potential opposition. On Thursday, Steven... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361010/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:16:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346327/posts <p>Global Warming: President Obama warns of planetary doom at the U.N. if we fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation. Meanwhile, a former warm-monger predicts decades of cooling as the sun stays nearly "spotless."</p> <p>The president had hoped to address Tuesday's United Nations climate change summit in New York with a finished cap-and-trade bill. Failing that, he hoped he'd at least have a version of the Waxman-Markey bill that has passed the House on his desk before the Copenhagen talks in December to cobble together a follow-up to the failed Kyoto Protocol.</p> Real Clear Markets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346327/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:31:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359372/posts It's truly extraordinary how every left-of-centre journalist in the country has managed to become an instant expert on the arcane subjects of global warming and the science of climate change. Imagine, for example, if some average Canadian hack who had never studied the Middle East suddenly announced that he was an authority on Israel-Palestine, knew which side was right and knew how to solve all of the associated problems. This, however, is what we are told every day when it comes to the fashion of sounding green. The more sympathy we can exhibit for Al Gore's polar bear or David... Toronto Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359372/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351206/posts Climate: As alternate-energy champ Spain's green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American "climate illiterates" don't follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is? King Canute, the Viking king of England, Norway and Denmark, was the legendary king whose sycophantic followers praised his power and wisdom. As the story goes, he once stood on the shore and commanded the waves to halt. Rather than exercising his ego, he in fact was giving his followers a lesson in reality — the power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential. In December, the world's... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351206/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346008/posts Global Warming: President Obama warns of planetary doom at the U.N. if we fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation. Meanwhile, a former warm-monger predicts decades of cooling as the sun stays nearly "spotless."The president had hoped to address Tuesday's United Nations climate change summit in New York with a finished cap-and-trade bill. Failing that, he hoped he'd at least have a version of the Waxman-Markey bill that has passed the House on his desk before the Copenhagen talks in December to cobble together a follow-up to the failed Kyoto Protocol. Not only did that not happen in the cool summer of... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346008/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:14:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336833/posts Energy Savings: Europe's ban on the incandescent light bulb began phasing in this month, and the U.S. will soon follow. Is Thomas Edison to blame for global warming? And why are we exporting green jobs?When the warm-mongers assemble in Copenhagen this December to hammer out a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, no doubt their work to save the earth from the carbon dioxide that gives it life will take place under the eerie light thrown off by compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) mandated by the European Union to fight climate change. The bulbs are more expensive, costing up to... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336833/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:57:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336021/posts India's greenhouse gas emissions are expected to jump to between 4 billion tonnes and 7.3 billion tonnes in 2031 ... Per-capita emissions are estimated to rise to 2.1 tonnes by 2020 and 3.5 tonnes by 2030, according to a government-funded study by five different organisations, including environmental groups and the management consultancy firm, McKinsey. The report did not give a figure for present emission levels but Indian climate negotiators say per-capita emissions are 1.2 tonnes at present. India's population is 1.1 billion but is expected to grow to more than 1.5 billion in coming decades. The report is the nation's... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336021/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:35:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331387/posts Book Review: The environmental movement has cultivated a warm and fuzzy public image, but behind the smiley-face rhetoric of "sustainability" and "conservation" lies a dark agenda. The Greens aim to regulate your behavior, downsize your lifestyle, and invade the most intimate aspects of your personal life. In this stunning exposé, Steve Milloy unveils the authoritarian impulse underlying the Green crusade. Whether they're demanding that you turn down your thermostat, stop driving your car, or engage in some other senseless act of self-denial, the Greens are envisioning a grim future for you marked by endless privation. Steve Milloy is the founder... Financial Sense http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331387/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:01:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327053/posts The Environmental Protection Agency is expected in the next few weeks to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are pollutants, a move that would require the federal government to regulate them -- even without legislation. Don't exhale. That advice may need heeding if the Environmental Protection Agency declares carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases dangerous pollutants, a move -- expected in the next couple weeks -- that would require the federal government to impose new rules limiting emissions. But some skeptics say regulating carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, may be a difficult task,... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327053/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:19:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326893/posts Don't Exhale. EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant The Environmental Protection Agency is expected in the next few weeks to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a pollutant, a move that would require the federal government to regulate them -- even without legislation. FOXNews.com Friday, August 28, 2009 Don't exhale. That advice may need heeding if the Environmental Protection Agency declares carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases a dangerous pollutant, a move -- expected in the next couple weeks -- that would require the federal government to impose new rules limiting emissions.... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326893/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:40:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326166/posts Junk Science: The EPA may be considering closing the watchdog office that exposed the flimsy evidence of man-caused warming. So much for the administration's promise to "restore science to its rightful place."Recently we commented on the plight of Dr. Allen Carlin, the EPA senior research analyst at the National Center for Environmental Economics who dared to say, in essence, that emperor Al Gore and his environmental sycophants at the Environmental Protection Agency wore no clothes. The EPA had been working on an "endangerment finding" that would say carbon dioxide, rather than being the basis for all life on earth, was... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326166/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:13:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197798/posts Climate Change: NASA's James Hansen leads a protest against a District of Columbia power plant in the middle of a snowstorm. Meanwhile, a scientist fired by Al Gore says we need to emit more carbon dioxide, not less.Speaking before Bill Clinton's Global Initiative in New York City last Nov. 2, Gore advocated the concept of civil disobedience to fight climate change. "I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore said to loud applause. Following Gore's lead, a... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197798/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 02:38:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308481/posts Pine trees grown for 12 years in air one-and-a-half times richer in carbon dioxide than today's levels produced twice as many seeds of at least as good a quality as those growing under normal conditions, a Duke University-led research team reported Aug. 3 at a national ecology conference. ScienceDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308481/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 04:03:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863540/posts Global Warming: If the rock stars who flew hundreds of thousands of miles in their jets to save the earth wanted to hug trees, they could have hugged the forest that once covered Greenland. We didn't see Sheryl Crow passing out single-sheet allotments of toilet paper to Live Earth concert-goers. But we did see perhaps the biggest-ever exercise in hypocrisy and futility as performers around the globe plugged in and amped up to save the earth from the climate impact of excessive energy consumption. John Rego, environmental director of Live Earth, insists the multi-continent charade, like the mansions of Gore,... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863540/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:52:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263396/posts Climate Change: NASA predicts the lowest sunspot activity since 1928. Is a major solar storm in the offing? While we worry about man-made warming, the sun may soon show us who's boss... But this dry statistic has more significance for the earth and its climate than all of Al Gore's gloom and doom about tailpipe emissions and rising sea levels. Whether the warm-mongers like it or not, the sun rules earth's climate — always has and always will. Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263396/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 01:29:37 GMT