Comments on: This is What Clean Coal Looks Like http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2008/12/25/this-is-what-clean-coal-looks-like/ When old landmarks crumble, established roads no longer lead the way. New paths open to those with an irregular eye. Our news is unfit for print. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:09:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clicker http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2008/12/25/this-is-what-clean-coal-looks-like/comment-page-1/#comment-488438 Clicker Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:30:03 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=9783#comment-488438 Jen, your critique of the concept of carbon dioxide pollution is based upon a ridiculous unstated premise: That if we and plants normally bring a substance into our bodies, it must not be dangerous. You discount the fact that a substance that is not harmful in one context can be very harmful in another. We drink water, and plants bring it in through its roots. However, we can drown in water, and most plants plants, if their roots get water-logged, can too. We breathe in oxygen, and would die without it. However, when oxygen is combined with nearby flammable materials and a certain amount of heat, it can be part of a chemical reaction that can destroy our bodies and everything in our homes. I hope, Jen, that you realize that carbon dioxide's role in climate change is much more complex than the idea of whether we can breathe it. No one is saying that carbon dioxide is a poison. However, artificial carbon dioxide emissions are a form of air pollution because we have gotten to the point where increased atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions have begun to warm global temperature, leading to a climate crisis that is present now. This has to do with how atmospheric carbon dioxide interacts with radiation from the sun. It has nothing to do with how carbon dioxide interacts with our lungs. Jen, your critique of the concept of carbon dioxide pollution is based upon a ridiculous unstated premise: That if we and plants normally bring a substance into our bodies, it must not be dangerous. You discount the fact that a substance that is not harmful in one context can be very harmful in another. We drink water, and plants bring it in through its roots. However, we can drown in water, and most plants plants, if their roots get water-logged, can too. We breathe in oxygen, and would die without it. However, when oxygen is combined with nearby flammable materials and a certain amount of heat, it can be part of a chemical reaction that can destroy our bodies and everything in our homes.

I hope, Jen, that you realize that carbon dioxide’s role in climate change is much more complex than the idea of whether we can breathe it.

No one is saying that carbon dioxide is a poison. However, artificial carbon dioxide emissions are a form of air pollution because we have gotten to the point where increased atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions have begun to warm global temperature, leading to a climate crisis that is present now. This has to do with how atmospheric carbon dioxide interacts with radiation from the sun. It has nothing to do with how carbon dioxide interacts with our lungs.

]]> By: jen http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2008/12/25/this-is-what-clean-coal-looks-like/comment-page-1/#comment-488421 jen Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:54:05 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=9783#comment-488421 I'm not half as scared of Carbon Dioxide (we exhale it, plants breath it) as i am of depleted uranium weapons! QUESTION WHAT WE HEAR I’m not half as scared of Carbon Dioxide (we exhale it, plants breath it) as i am of depleted uranium weapons!

QUESTION WHAT WE HEAR

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