http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/co2/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts Agriculture: Already buffeted by rising food prices due to biofuels, consumers face a bigger hike if climate-change legislation is passed. Farming costs will rise, and it may be more profitable to plant trees than crops. If the cap-and-trade provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill become law, you can wave goodbye to those amber waves of grain as America's heartland falls victim to a perverse set of incentives and a process called "afforestation." Soybeans and wheat will give way to elms and oaks. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants a review of what amounts to an agricultural impact study of HR 2454, which... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418296/posts Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase. snip To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed... ScienceDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418296/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:45:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417942/posts Several recent studies have highlighted the possibility that the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems have started loosing part of their ability to sequester a large proportion of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions. > It is shown that with those uncertainties, the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade, i.e. close to and not significantly different from zero. > University of Bristol http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417942/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:38:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415693/posts February 24, 2009, NASA's 280 million dollar Orbiting Carbon Observatory fell into the Antarctic after it failed to make orbit. Now, I'm not a Truther who believes 9/11 was an inside job produced by George Bush, nor am I certain BO is a U.S. citizen, but where there's smoke, there's fire from a burning birth certificate somewhere . . . NASA's carbon checking satellite was launched with the intention of definitively mapping the amount and effects of that evil atom, carbon, on the earth, which has alone been responsible for loading western universities with a non diversity of well funded... JoeClarke.Net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415693/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts Climate Change: A peer-reviewed study by a respected Canadian physicist blames the interplay of cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons for 20th-century warming. The CFCs are now gone, and so is warming — perhaps for the next 50 years. Much of the nation got a white Christmas this year, some in unprecedented quantities. A record-breaking storm deposited 12 to 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Many places set records for the most snow in a single December day as more than 50% of the U.S. was covered by the white stuff. Scientists (and here we use the word... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414848/posts I found this on one of the blogs I read ( The Energy Collective). Richard Alley is a noted glaciologist, at Penn State, peripherally associated with Michael Mann. Feel free to ignore this if that bugs you. In the lecture, he explains how CO2 is linked to climate throughout paleohistory -- feel free to ignore that if it bugs you, too. The science is true if it bugs you or not. He pokes fun of climate change skeptics -- another reason to ignore this. I.e., it will take people with a real interest in the subject, who don't care about... American Geophysical Union http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414848/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:21:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414828/posts ... You remember those fluorocarbons, every aerosol can used to be loaded with the stuff until we found out they were putting a hole in the ozone layer. The fluorocarbons were removed and since 2002 the ozone layer has been closing and the earth stopped warming. Qing Bin-Lu, a professor of physics and astronomy at Canada's University of Waterloo took a look at the interaction between cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons and predicts that global warming has disappeared, maybe for the next 50 years This peer-reviewed paper was published in the prestigious online journal Physics Reports, Lu, who holds a Ph.D.... The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414828/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:44:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414498/posts Here's some new terms for some of you, “carbon pawprint.” or “carbon clawprint.” Did you know that your pet emits more CO2 than your neighbors SUV? That’s right according to New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale’s new book “Time to Eat the Dog” you’d better stop casting that self-righteous stare at your neighbors as they pull out of their driveways in SUVs to go to work while you’re petting Fido on the head. Why, because you’re the greater threat to the planet not the SUV driving neighbor... Creating Orwellian Worldview http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414498/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:49:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414097/posts <p>WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud.</p> <p>Republican legislators say the records--due to be opened to the public in early January--could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation that Congress is considering.</p> Dow Jones Newswires http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414097/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:23:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413821/posts Taking the dog for a walk to the store would seem like a more environmentally-friendly option than piling into the SUV. Not so, say two New Zealand scientists whose new book claims pets have a carbon footprint that is about twice the size of the gas guzzling vehicles that have long been a bane of environmentalism. In "Time to Eat the Dog, the Real Guide to Sustainable Living," Robert and Brenda Vale charge that a medium-size dog has a footprint of 2.1 acres compared with slightly more than one acre for a standard sport utility vehicle. The New Scientist Web... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413821/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:58:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413095/posts The climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo. The Copenhagen conference that ended Friday was an exercise in political theater. It not only failed to produce a binding agreement, but the potential emissions curbs it endorsed fall far below what climate orthodoxy demands, while the proposed wealth transfer from rich nations to poor nations is a political nonstarter. Back home, cap and trade legislation remains on life support, even though it has been significantly watered down so as to postpone real costs to consumers for a decade or more. In the midst of this... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413095/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412085/posts The U.N. Climate Control Conference in Copenhagen ended in failure in that no binding agreement was reached to reduce CO2 emissions. China nixed the agreement by refusing to compromise on the issue of international verification as noted by a British newspaper called The Independent: When the [U.S.] President, in an unyielding speech, said that without international verification "any agreement would be empty words on a page", that was too much for [Chinese Premier] Mr Wen. He left the conference in Copenhagen's Bella Centre, returned to his hotel in the city, and responded with a direct snub of his own -... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412085/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:59:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411917/posts The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411917/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:14:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411865/posts No excerpt allowed from Bloomberg.com, story here. Bloomberg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411865/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:24:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411665/posts The Copenhagen summit achieved its main aim, to maintain the carbon-trading system established by the Kyoto Protocol, says Christopher Booker As fairy-tale snow gently descended on Copenhagen, the great global warming conference degenerated through pantomime, boredom, chaos and anger to its entirely predictable conclusion – a colossal pile of fudge with a very hard and nasty rock hidden at its centre. The "world summit" on climate change was never really going to be about saving the world from global warming at all. Even if the delegates had got all they wanted, it would no more have had any influence on... UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411665/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:13:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410424/posts CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Paul Schiffer, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's 16th Congressional District, has already written legislation to repeal last Monday's decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling carbon dioxide a "pollutant." Paul Schiffer pledged to introduce and fight for this repeal in January 2011 after being elected in November 2010. Schiffer's legislation would leave in place all regulation of genuine pollution but exclude carbon dioxide from the definition of a pollutant in all Federal laws. This would strip the EPA of authority to regulate the carbon dioxide which plants breathe. It would also... Christian News Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410424/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:38:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410135/posts Republican lawmakers said on Thursday they would try to block a Environmental Protection Agency proposal that opens the door to federal regulation of planet-warming gases. Last week, the EPA issued a ruling that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, clearing the way for the agency to regulate carbon without congressional legislation. Senator Lisa Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is leading an effort in the chamber to overturn the finding through a rarely used joint resolution of disapproval. Getting the proposal passed will be a heavy lift, since Republicans are a minority in both... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410135/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410083/posts In the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore argues that historically, when the levels of carbon dioxide rises that is cause the temperatures of earth to rise considerably. In his documentary, Gore explains that ice core records from the distant past proves this point. However, when the data is looked at in finer detail, it becomes obvious that temperature is driving the hight levels of carbon dioxide not the other way around as Gore and his fellow watermelon political allies would like us to believe. I call them watermelon because they may be green on the outside, but they are... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410083/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:08:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409668/posts Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule; Proposed Rule SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to tailor the major source applicability thresholds for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and title V programs of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and to set a PSD significance level for GHG emissions. This proposal is necessary because EPA expects soon to promulgate regulations under the CAA to control GHG emissions and, as a result, trigger PSD and title V applicability requirements for GHG emissions. The first phase, which would last 6 years, would... Federal Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409668/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406977/posts Ice cores reveal that CO2 levels rise and fall hundreds of years after temperatures changeIn 1985, ice cores extracted from Greenland revealed temperatures and CO2 levels going back 150,000 years. Temperature and CO2 seemed locked together. It was a turning point—the “greenhouse effect” captured attention. But in 1999 it became clear carbon rose and fell after temperatures did. By 2003 we had better data showing the lag was 800 ± 200 years. CO2 was in the back seat.AGW replies: There is roughly an 800-year lag. But even if CO2 doesn’t start the warming trend, it amplifies it.Skeptics say: If CO2... JoNova http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406977/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:29:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407712/posts Contraception is almost five times cheaper than conventional green technologies as a means of combating climate change, according to new research commissioned by the Optimum Population Trust. UK Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407712/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407351/posts Forget the dire economic consequences of a Copenhagen climate change treaty for a second and think about the fraud involved. Carbon Trading Fraud Take the European Union, for instance, which implemented a carbon trading scheme analogous to a cap and trade system. And it has been fraught with fraud. French officials are investigating a $230 million carbon trading fraud scheme and this is only the tip of the iceberg in what is a startling revelation and huge blow to the climate talks in Copenhagen: Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement arm against organized crime, announced on Wednesday that carbon-trading fraud... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407351/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407364/posts COPENHAGEN, Dec 14 -- The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of more than half- -a-million Ethiopians, figures commissioned by hosts Denmark show. Delegates, journalists, activists and observers from almost 200 countries have gathered at the Dec 7-18 summit and their travel and work will create 46,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, most of it from their flights. This would fill nearly 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, and is the same amount produced each year by 2,300 Americans or 660,000 Ethiopians -- the vast difference is due to the huge... Reuters via National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407364/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:01:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407263/posts CLIMATE STATEMENT "AN ORCHESTRATED LITANY OF LIES" Veteran Wellington climate consultant, Dr Vincent Gray, expert reviewer of all four IPCC Assessment Reports, explains why he has resigned his longtime membership of the Royal Society of New Zealand in protest at the inaccuracies in a report on climate change issued on 12 July by the Society's Climate Committee. COMMENTS ON THE RECENT STATEMENT BY THE CLIMATE COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND  Dr Vincent Gray INTRODUCTION As an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for eighteen years, that is to say, from the very beginning. I... The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407263/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407105/posts Perhaps when the history of our times is written, ours will be called The Era of Narcissistic Catechisms. To understand why this is the case it is enough to consider the fortunes of two green movements. On the main stage of global affairs this week we have the much touted UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. Standing with 15,000 delegates representing green activism groups and politically correct scientists the world over are international celebrity leaders like Nobel Peace Prize laureates Barack Obama, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu and their fellow celebrities and Oscar and Grammy winners Al Gore, Leonardo Dicaprio,... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407105/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:45:00 GMT