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One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars
thecarchik writes "One giant container ship pollutes the air as much as 50 million cars. Which means that just 15 of the huge ships emit as much as today's entire global 'car park' of roughly 750 million vehicles. Among the bad stuff: sulfur, soot, and other particulate matter that embeds itself in human lungs to cause a variety of cardiopulmonary illnesses. Since the mid-1970s, developed countries have imposed increasingly stringent regulations on auto emissions. In three decades, precise electronic engine controls, new high-pressure injectors, and sophisticated catalytic converters have cut emissions of nitrous oxides, carbon dioxides, and hydrocarbons by more than 98 percent. New regulations will further reduce these already minute limits. But ships today are where cars were in 1965: utterly uncontrolled, free to emit whatever they like." According to Wikipedia, 57 giant container ships (rated from 9,200 to 15,200 twenty-foot equivalent units) are plying the world's oceans.
You feel free to reduce your own life to only stuff that you absolutely need to survive. Start by discarding the computer you use to post to /. please. Me, I'll continue buying stuff that I want and can afford. The fact that doing so pisses off hippies just makes it that much sweeter.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I'm part of "us". What's good for me is good for "us". But blame whoever you desire, it's your trip.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Global warming is a real phenomenon, there are few scientists that deny it's existence. What is up for debate is how much of the climate changed is actually caused directly by man. Yes the earth gets warmer and colder at times, that is called "weather" and looking at the last 50 years doesn't mean squat. Anomalies happen. But when you look at trends over the last couple hundred years, that is when you are talking about real "climate change". It could snow in the Sahara or be 20 below in Saudi Arabia - that is neither here nor there when talking about long term climate changes. People seem to get so wrapped up in current temperatures somehow proving "global warming" is either real or not. It doesn't matter how hot or cold it was wherever over the last few years. Trends have a way of happening in statistics that seem unusual when looking too close. But when you back off and look at averages over many many years it tends to appear more even, and bigger patterns start to emerge. And if man has an impact or not - at this point it is safe to say we don't really know.
"But this one goes to 11!"
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It's pretty clear that you missed the joke somewhere along the way. You probably outta change your sigline just so you aren't announcing to the world how badly you aren't a programmer, cryptographer, or technologically savvy. In the meantime, here's a website that you can use to try to understand just what ROT-13 encryption is.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.