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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby essex » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 01:08:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ')we exhale carbon dioxide. If you can regulate and declare a toxic pollutant what we exhale from our mouth,
You dont think that CO2 is toxic? Why then have CO2 scrubbers in enclosed enviroments such as submarines and spaceships.

And who is regulating CO2 from breathing. You are making this up as you have failed miserably to come up with other arguments.


Following essex's logic, I find social and economic conservatism, Orwellian. However I am sure he has good reasons as to why we MUST follow his preferred conventions, all invariably related to personal reward but nevertheless, from his perspective, utterly natural and reasonable.

Many of us however look beyond personal wealth and are equally as valid in our preferred conventions despite not buying into his. We take the position that a closed but graduated climate paradigm does not for unlimited human development on this presently human friendly planet, make. There is no evidence sufficiently strong yet to dissuade me that no matter what we do as a species, the corridor of climate variation in human friendly mode is wide enough to accommodate my inputs.

Time is the ultimate arbiter as it always has been, however.


The net is a great way to make assumptions about others anonymously. You have no way of knowing that they are correct. If by trying to make mud stick you feel better/superior then that's your problem. There is one thing , however, which is obvious , and that is the compulsive poster eager to rack up posts to " fission" level. It must validate a certain personality type in some way. Really, where do you go from there?

The remark about CO2 in submarines is simply stupid. Perhaps you might like to try pure oxygen instead. Either way you're dead in no time. CO2 at 200 ppm and plants stop growing. Your average office/classroom/commercial greenhouse atmosphere is 1000ppm. The only food without CO2 in your local supermarket is water and salt. Since water vapour makes up 95% of the atmosphere's GHG there has to be a move soon to demonize it and at the very least tax it.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby americandream » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 01:35:15

The quintessential hallmark of the conservative right is a tendecy to cry foul whilst systematically abusing their detractors. Another is an inability to look beyond the tip of their shoes (I shall be generous and grant them a greater reach than their nose).

The crux of the climate debte is not how many parts of this or that we can survive with or without.......its essence, its very heart for the vast bulk of us who contemplate climate change with trepidation is just how far can we go as a species on the fast track road to an American style capitalism in reconfiguring the planet at every level: atmospheric, natural environment, water quality, suburbanisation, urbanisation, deforestation, mcmansioning, lost species and of course, our concerns with co2 are part of that bigger picture, which you evidently miss in nit picking the smaller picture.

I haven't any idea what vintage you happen to be but by and large, those of us on the right side of young families and the bell curve to the mortal coil are geniunely concerned that those baby boomers who purported to have ended history when they invented "infallible derivatives" haven't a fcukkin clue, have one foot invariably in the grave and arent to be trusted as a consequence.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ')we exhale carbon dioxide. If you can regulate and declare a toxic pollutant what we exhale from our mouth,
You dont think that CO2 is toxic? Why then have CO2 scrubbers in enclosed enviroments such as submarines and spaceships.

And who is regulating CO2 from breathing. You are making this up as you have failed miserably to come up with other arguments.


Following essex's logic, I find social and economic conservatism, Orwellian. However I am sure he has good reasons as to why we MUST follow his preferred conventions, all invariably related to personal reward but nevertheless, from his perspective, utterly natural and reasonable.

Many of us however look beyond personal wealth and are equally as valid in our preferred conventions despite not buying into his. We take the position that a closed but graduated climate paradigm does not for unlimited human development on this presently human friendly planet, make. There is no evidence sufficiently strong yet to dissuade me that no matter what we do as a species, the corridor of climate variation in human friendly mode is wide enough to accommodate my inputs.

Time is the ultimate arbiter as it always has been, however.


The net is a great way to make assumptions about others anonymously. You have no way of knowing that they are correct. If by trying to make mud stick you feel better/superior then that's your problem. There is one thing , however, which is obvious , and that is the compulsive poster eager to rack up posts to " fission" level. It must validate a certain personality type in some way. Really, where do you go from there?

The remark about CO2 in submarines is simply stupid. Perhaps you might like to try pure oxygen instead. Either way you're dead in no time. CO2 at 200 ppm and plants stop growing. Your average office/classroom/commercial greenhouse atmosphere is 1000ppm. The only food without CO2 in your local supermarket is water and salt. Since water vapour makes up 95% of the atmosphere's GHG there has to be a move soon to demonize it and at the very least tax it.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby heroineworshipper » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 01:56:51

Is China going stop shooting down our spy planes in 2100? These guys R ridiculous. At least they're keeping CNN busy. I'm going to mow the lawn in 2500.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby Pretorian » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 02:55:31

Pakistan and the rest of the muslim world is fighting India and China in Uigur's region, China is fighting India and the muslim world, now wouldn't it be nice? It could solve so many problems..
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby americandream » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 03:04:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'P')akistan and the rest of the muslim world is fighting India and China in Uigur's region, China is fighting India and the muslim world, now wouldn't it be nice? It could solve so many problems..


We could send the Chinese and Indians our surplus rednecks for target practice...die-off as well as pest control..all in one hit. :badgrin:
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby dorlomin » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 05:10:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ')we exhale carbon dioxide. If you can regulate and declare a toxic pollutant what we exhale from our mouth
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ')
The remark about CO2 in submarines is simply stupid.
Too you yes, because it is not the return you wanted. How unfair. But CO2 has been regulated for its toxic properties for many years now. Your eyeswiveling invoking of Orwell shows a basic grasp of reality.

However if I was to be fair then I should point out that CO2 is regulated for its toxicity in enclosed spaces. But you were lying yet again. You were feebly trying to tell us that CO2 is regulated for its toxic qualities into the wider enviroment. This is an obvious falsehood, it is its properties as a greenhouse gas, NOT its toxicity.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ')CO2 at 200 ppm and plants stop growing.
Please source this. It looks more like your invented facts. Link

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ')Since water vapour makes up 95% of the atmosphere's GHG there has to be a move soon to demonize it and at the very least tax it.
You are making this up.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby Cloud9 » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 06:53:50

N.Z. has rednecks?
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby Plantagenet » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 14:41:59

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ') Since water vapour makes up 95% of the atmosphere's GHG there has to be a move soon to demonize it and at the very least tax it.
You are making this up.


Bzzzt! Water vapor IS indeed the most important greenhouse gas.

Water vapor accounts for the largest percentage of the greenhouse effect, between 36% and 66% for water vapor alone, and between 66% and 85% when factoring in clouds.[7]

---from Wikipedia

But climate models tend to ignore it because the models aren't capable of mathematically including cloud formation. So the modelers just assume clouds stay the same as other things change, or the clouds are manually forced to follow the other climate GHG, like CO2, and act as a "feedback effect" amplifying the smaller warming produced by CO2 alone. Actually, we don't know if that will happen.

This is one of the biggest possible errors in the models of climate warming.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby dorlomin » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 15:01:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', ' ') Since water vapour makes up 95% of the atmosphere's GHG there has to be a move soon to demonize it and at the very least tax it.
You are making this up.


Bzzzt! Water vapor IS indeed the most important greenhouse gas.

Is it about to be taxed? Any demonisation.......


The questions are rhetorical.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby americandream » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 15:45:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'N').Z. has rednecks?


I refer here to the entire anglo-saxon west. We have some good common values, our legal system is about as good process wise as you can find, but we also have a terrible attitude with the "me firsters"....from Canada to the South Island, which is what continually gets us into these tiresome colonial adventures all the way from Mexico to the Pacific Islands.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby essex » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 18:36:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'N').Z. has rednecks?

Only one, Americandream,an Orwellian carbophobic freezing his ass off in the coldest winter for two decades.

BTW thanks to the posters who took the time to verify the facts I have posted. It's been fun, off for a holiday.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby americandream » Sun 16 Aug 2009, 19:04:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('essex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'N').Z. has rednecks?
Only one, Americandream,an Orwellian carbophobic freezing his ass off in the coldest winter for two decades. BTW thanks to the posters who took the time to verify the facts I have posted. It's been fun, off for a holiday.

Coming from a cheerleader for more derivative like London centric swashbuckling on the high seas, I take that as a compliment guv.

As for the rest of us who are fed up with these incessant ,region wide, impoverishing and identifiable group scale, refugee generating foreign adventures, we look forward to the day that the bloated few eventually see the light and learn to co-exist both with their fellow humans as well as their planetary home.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby AgentR » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 14:05:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'W')e could send the Chinese and Indians our surplus rednecks for target practice...die-off as well as pest control..all in one hit. :badgrin:


Substitute an inappropriate racial slur for your "redneck" and think about it for a moment.

Yet more proof that the left is not about ending racism; its about molding it to suit their own aims.

To the gist of the OP; there are two outlooks in conflict here; there is the one that is climate result centered, and there is one that is fairness/development centered. The problem with the latter is that it must be acknowledged that developed countries will not be reducing their per capita output by any serous amounts any time soon; thus leaving the only possible, honest response one of accepting that the developing industrial world will be raising their CO2 output to near the current US per capita outputs. From the former's view, this matching of percapita output to the industrial West creates just about the worst case global climate change result that you could write on paper without being thrown in the nuthouse.

For myself, I'm all for reducing US emissions; as long as everyone is honest about understanding that it will have no measurable impact on the resultant degree of global climate change; and thus accept that we must start spending talent and treasure on the means to adapt to near and long term consequences of the inevitable worst-case change.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby rangerone314 » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 15:30:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'S')o by capping ourselves, we only weaken our position in the coming resource wars. :cry:


Capping should be called Knee-capping.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby americandream » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 16:50:13

A "redneck" is one element that constitutes that broad class of "lumpenproletariat", the arch enemy of marxists, ranking alongside the corrupt owners of capital. Can I make it any clearer than that? As for this namby pambly notion of leftism you get out of vegetarian magazines and new age twaddle, more twaddle.

Marxists are as much about moulding humankind as the travelling companions of global capital, it's "lumpenproletariat" apologists, are about furthering the fabricating and manipulating of reality to preserve their masters skewed privilege.

The fewer of these roaches, the minimal is their impact.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'S')ubstitute an inappropriate racial slur for your "redneck" and think about it for a moment. --snip--
For myself, I'm all for reducing US emissions; as long as everyone is honest about understanding that it will have no measurable impact on the resultant degree of global climate change; and thus accept that we must start spending talent and treasure on the means to adapt to near and long term consequences of the inevitable worst-case change.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby hillsidedigger » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 18:16:26

One TV show I watched stated that the term 'redneck' originated in the early 1920's when coalminer labor union sympathizers in one West Virginia county grouped themselves together (wearing red bandanas around their necks to recognize each other) and attempted with rifles in hand to march into another West Virginia county where the coal mine owners were routinely having those sympathetic to labor unions shot.

They were met by a private army with machine guns and it's been called the most extreme gun battle on American soil since the Indian Wars.

I wonder what is the life expectancy of any Chinese coal miners who talk out loud about labor unions? Maybe, 3 hours. Curiously, China is now losing about the same number of coal miners to accidents a week as did the United States during the 1920's and the number that now die per week in China is close to the number that are lost in a year currently in American coal mines.

Of course, those like fair-skinned construction workers and farmers who spend a lot of time in the sun often end up with red necks.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby americandream » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 18:31:11

The term had its origins in South Africa during the Boer war, in the Afrikaans word, "rooinek", a euphemism to distinguish the recently arrived English speakers (often less hardy as well) and Victoria's army from the Volk. It is still extensively used by Afrikaners.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', 'O')ne TV show I watched stated that the term 'redneck' originated in the early 1920's when coalminer labor union sympathizers in one West Virginia county grouped themselves together (wearing red bandanas around their necks to recognize each other) and attempted with rifles in hand to march into another West Virginia County where the coal mine owners were routinely having those sympathetic to labor unions shot.

They were met by a private army with machine guns and it's been called the most extreme gun battle on American soil since the Indian Wars.

I wonder what is the life expectancy of any Chinese coal miners who talk out loud about labor unions? Maybe, 3 hours. Curiously, China is now losing about the same number of coal miners to accidents a week as did the United States during the 1920's and the number that now die per week in China is close to the number that are lost in a year currently in American coal mines.

Of course, those like construction workers and farmers who spend a lot of time in the sun often end up with red necks.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby rangerone314 » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 18:40:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hillsidedigger', 'O')ne TV show I watched stated that the term 'redneck' originated in the early 1920's when coalminer labor union sympathizers in one West Virginia county grouped themselves together (wearing red bandanas around their necks to recognize each other) and attempted with rifles in hand to march into another West Virginia county where the coal mine owners were routinely having those sympathetic to labor unions shot.

They were met by a private army with machine guns and it's been called the most extreme gun battle on American soil since the Indian Wars.

I wonder what is the life expectancy of any Chinese coal miners who talk out loud about labor unions? Maybe, 3 hours. Curiously, China is now losing about the same number of coal miners to accidents a week as did the United States during the 1920's and the number that now die per week in China is close to the number that are lost in a year currently in American coal mines.

Of course, those like construction workers and farmers who spend a lot of time in the sun often end up with red necks.


Stupid rednecks... If I was one of those 1920 coal miners I would have brought sticks of dynamite and hurled them into the private army and when everyone was wounded or incapacitated, killed them all one by one by bashing their heads with large rocks to save on ammunition (after groin kicking them 2 or 20 times). Then used the saved ammo to kill the owners.

Actually an even better plan when the owners are showing such a callous disregard for human life, would have been to target the wives and children of the owners with death or worse. Blood demands blood and an eye for an eye is stupid; 1000 eyes for one eye is my usual rule.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby Pretorian » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 21:07:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')Stupid rednecks... If I was one of those 1920 coal miners ...


Sorry Range if you were a coal-miner in 1920s wouldn't you accept the risks associated with profession before committing to it? They weren't forcibly recruited werent they? And I would guess they were getting more money than if they did something else, if so why blame owners? They volunteered for extra risk for extra pay. Just like people do in any other profession. You can't blame one group for stupidity of another.
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Re: China won't cap or reduce CO2 emission until 2050

Unread postby rangerone314 » Mon 17 Aug 2009, 21:51:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')Stupid rednecks... If I was one of those 1920 coal miners ...


Sorry Range if you were a coal-miner in 1920s wouldn't you accept the risks associated with profession before committing to it? They weren't forcibly recruited werent they? And I would guess they were getting more money than if they did something else, if so why blame owners? They volunteered for extra risk for extra pay. Just like people do in any other profession. You can't blame one group for stupidity of another.


You must have missed the private army with machine guns.

A lot like Ford Motor Company and his Pinkertons.

Is getting shot by the mine owners a work place risk?

Also, if the owners don't like people going on strike then they can CLOSE THE MINE. Isn't business failure a risk the owners VOLUNTEERED for?

Just the same old s**t with corporations. Except now companies like Golden-Sacks or Bank of Amerika don't need private armies... they have presidents like Obama and Bush backing them.

The thing China government has in common with the American corporations is that they both support a race to the bottom. Lets have less pay, more pollution, less worker rights, and lets make sure that the people who have power get MORE, because lord knows they are doing such a swell job that they
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