You're right of course but it's a relatively minuscule amount. Another consideration is the calories of fossil fuel energy put into growing, processing, delivering and preparing the food we eat. But all of those could be eliminated and we'd exhale CO2 free of global warming implications.
Of course all of the CO2 your body produces is from carbon that is already in the environment as a part of the carbon cycle, not carbon that has been sequestered in the form of coal and oil for hundreds of millions of years. Unless you're eating coal and drinking petroleum that is.
My way of deterring bad official conduct would be to go ahead and use the ill-gotten evidence but any police officer or other official who participated in violating the perps civil rights gets to be their roomie in the slammer for the duration of their sentance. That would probably eliminate the problems real quick.
I find it's largely true in large bureaucratic private businesses as well. The different departments spend their entire budget each year to help justify continuing the level of support. It's a characteristic of any large bureaucratic organization regardless of it's purpose.
Cats are more carnivorous than dogs. Cat food is around 30% protein and dog food is around 21%. I guess that makes cats a bit higher on the food chain but as wild animals I think they're about the same level. After all, cougars and wolves have a lot of prey in common.
One other comment on private companies. Private companies generally don't have to disclose their screw-ups in the same way that governments in the US are required to by law. So you never hear about much of the waste and corruption in private business.
I guess you prefer a private insurance company whose primary motivation is profit to make those decisions for you then. Not me. Very few people in this country are advocating a system where the government employs the health care workers. Rather we should have a single payer, not for profit system for primary coverage. That simple change would reduce the per capita costs of health care by a tremendous amount in this country.
And US "Capitalism" lately has been only working by selling off the surplus wealth our ancestors accumulated after WWII up to about 1970's. After that we started cashing out and borrowing to sustain our growth (and I'm not talking about government debt but private debt here). We shipped many of the manufacturing jobs that actually made things of value overseas and elevated the status of shuffling financial papers building a pyramid of over leverage that is collapsing as we speak. We went from the largest exporter in the world to the largest importer in a matter of a decade or two. Now the bills are coming due and it's time for us to take our medicine.
The US lost the minute we invaded Iraq. We changed a largely secular Iraq into a Shiite ally of Iran. We started an illegal war with a country that was not a serious threat to us. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/ll and little to do with terrorism other than some payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers after they died. I think we invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein wouldn't stay bought and paid for after our efforts to put him into power in the first place and the aid we sent him over the years. It was supposed to be an object lesson to others in his position but in the end just exposed how weak the US is in the long run. Don't get me wrong, Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and I'm not sad to see him gone but US actions have probably killed as many Iraqis in 7 years as he did in 30.
The terrorist are winning as we turn our country into a fearful police state that tries to monitor everything and stifles dissent as unpatriotic.
No, it wasn't high taxes that made them mad. The fundamental complaints of the time were taxation without representation and the extent of parliaments authority in the colonies. At the time of the tea party the taxes had already been reduced and the British East India Company was actually underselling those smuggling tea into the colonies and they were concerned about the potential for a monopoly.
I've often thought that all of the sales taxing entities need to get together and create an internet sales tax clearing house where anyone selling on the internet simply submits the buyers zip code and the the other relevant information and it returns the applicable tax amount rather than forcing all retailers to figure it out on their own. The taxing entities would be responsible for keeping the rates up to date and paying for the clearing house but wouldn't be losing so much revenue due to unreported transactions.
Of course, living in Oregon, I don't really care that much since we don't have sales taxes here.
BTW, for all you teabaggers, the Boston Tea Party was specifically fomented because the colonists objected to the the Crown reducing the tax on tea to 0 for the British East India company. The opposite of what today's teabaggers are protesting about.
Forget about Pluto. It recently passed perihelion and because of its highly eccentric orbit (varying from 29.6 AU to 49.3 AU from the Sun) you would expect it to warm up regardless of other factors. It will probably continue to warm up for a while still until it gets a bit further from the Sun. From February 1979 to February 1999 Pluto was closer to the Sun than Neptune. Pluto's year is 248+ Earth years long.
There are a couple of things that show human activities have caused the increase in atmospheric CO2.
First, we know pretty accurately how much CO2 human activities release in a year and the growth in atmospheric CO2 levels accounts for only around 2/3 of that total so the rest is being absorbed in the carbon cycle. An example of how we know how much CO2 is released is that a ton of coal is about 70% carbon on average. That's 1400 lbs. of carbon. Combining each carbon atom (atomic weight 12) with 2 oxygen atoms (atomic weight 16) produces CO2 (atomic weight 44). So burning 1400 lbs. of carbon produces 5133 lbs of CO2. Put another way burning a ton of coal produces about 2.57 tons of CO2. Similar calculations can be made for other human activities that produce CO2 and we gather all sorts of statistics about those activities.
Second, the carbon in fossil fuels has a different C12/C13 ratio than the atmosphere as a whole because plants (the original source of the carbon in fossil fuels) prefers the lighter C12 over C13. So burning a lot of fossil fuels should change the C12/C13 ratio in the atmosphere and that change has been measured. And don't confuse this with carbon dating which uses C14. C12 & C13 are both stable.
I would say both of those facts are strong evidence that the CO2 increase in the atmosphere is due to human activities.
The money Jindal was referring to was $140M for the USGS for a number of different programs that include volcano monitoring but also earthquake, tsunami & flooding. It will be spent on upgrading and installing new, more advanced and automated equipment, hence spending money on new equipment and the salaries of those required to build and install the equipment, hence a small piece of a bigger stimulus bill.
... I invest with negative return expectations. E.g. I buy a concert ticket. The concert is over, the money is gone...
I still have concerts living in me that I went to in the 1960's. I'm happy with those investments. Money is far from the only thing I value, in fact it's not in the top 10, maybe not even top 100.
Okay, we just have a semantic difference. I guess you could say geographic information is a necessary adjunct of science and therefore a "sciencey" thing:-)
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You're right of course but it's a relatively minuscule amount. Another consideration is the calories of fossil fuel energy put into growing, processing, delivering and preparing the food we eat. But all of those could be eliminated and we'd exhale CO2 free of global warming implications.
Of course all of the CO2 your body produces is from carbon that is already in the environment as a part of the carbon cycle, not carbon that has been sequestered in the form of coal and oil for hundreds of millions of years. Unless you're eating coal and drinking petroleum that is.
No, the US was successful in bringing Al Qaeda to Iraq to fight them.
My way of deterring bad official conduct would be to go ahead and use the ill-gotten evidence but any police officer or other official who participated in violating the perps civil rights gets to be their roomie in the slammer for the duration of their sentance. That would probably eliminate the problems real quick.
And maybe the second time they could get the primary mirror right before they launch it.
If you found mistakes on your tax return you can file an amended tax return. No reason to wait for next year.
I find it's largely true in large bureaucratic private businesses as well. The different departments spend their entire budget each year to help justify continuing the level of support. It's a characteristic of any large bureaucratic organization regardless of it's purpose.
I would call religion a hypothesis more than a theory. There's not much empirical evidence to back it up.
Cats are more carnivorous than dogs. Cat food is around 30% protein and dog food is around 21%. I guess that makes cats a bit higher on the food chain but as wild animals I think they're about the same level. After all, cougars and wolves have a lot of prey in common.
One other comment on private companies. Private companies generally don't have to disclose their screw-ups in the same way that governments in the US are required to by law. So you never hear about much of the waste and corruption in private business.
I guess you prefer a private insurance company whose primary motivation is profit to make those decisions for you then. Not me. Very few people in this country are advocating a system where the government employs the health care workers. Rather we should have a single payer, not for profit system for primary coverage. That simple change would reduce the per capita costs of health care by a tremendous amount in this country.
Now-a-days fascist means just about anyone whose politics you disagree with. It's become pretty meaningless IMHO.
And US "Capitalism" lately has been only working by selling off the surplus wealth our ancestors accumulated after WWII up to about 1970's. After that we started cashing out and borrowing to sustain our growth (and I'm not talking about government debt but private debt here). We shipped many of the manufacturing jobs that actually made things of value overseas and elevated the status of shuffling financial papers building a pyramid of over leverage that is collapsing as we speak. We went from the largest exporter in the world to the largest importer in a matter of a decade or two. Now the bills are coming due and it's time for us to take our medicine.
As far as I can tell he's the leader of the Republican Party right now.
The US lost the minute we invaded Iraq. We changed a largely secular Iraq into a Shiite ally of Iran. We started an illegal war with a country that was not a serious threat to us. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/ll and little to do with terrorism other than some payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers after they died. I think we invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein wouldn't stay bought and paid for after our efforts to put him into power in the first place and the aid we sent him over the years. It was supposed to be an object lesson to others in his position but in the end just exposed how weak the US is in the long run. Don't get me wrong, Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and I'm not sad to see him gone but US actions have probably killed as many Iraqis in 7 years as he did in 30.
The terrorist are winning as we turn our country into a fearful police state that tries to monitor everything and stifles dissent as unpatriotic.
Replying to kill mis-moderation.
No, it wasn't high taxes that made them mad. The fundamental complaints of the time were taxation without representation and the extent of parliaments authority in the colonies. At the time of the tea party the taxes had already been reduced and the British East India Company was actually underselling those smuggling tea into the colonies and they were concerned about the potential for a monopoly.
I've often thought that all of the sales taxing entities need to get together and create an internet sales tax clearing house where anyone selling on the internet simply submits the buyers zip code and the the other relevant information and it returns the applicable tax amount rather than forcing all retailers to figure it out on their own. The taxing entities would be responsible for keeping the rates up to date and paying for the clearing house but wouldn't be losing so much revenue due to unreported transactions.
Of course, living in Oregon, I don't really care that much since we don't have sales taxes here.
BTW, for all you teabaggers, the Boston Tea Party was specifically fomented because the colonists objected to the the Crown reducing the tax on tea to 0 for the British East India company. The opposite of what today's teabaggers are protesting about.
Forget about Pluto. It recently passed perihelion and because of its highly eccentric orbit (varying from 29.6 AU to 49.3 AU from the Sun) you would expect it to warm up regardless of other factors. It will probably continue to warm up for a while still until it gets a bit further from the Sun. From February 1979 to February 1999 Pluto was closer to the Sun than Neptune. Pluto's year is 248+ Earth years long.
Steak,
There are a couple of things that show human activities have caused the increase in atmospheric CO2.
First, we know pretty accurately how much CO2 human activities release in a year and the growth in atmospheric CO2 levels accounts for only around 2/3 of that total so the rest is being absorbed in the carbon cycle. An example of how we know how much CO2 is released is that a ton of coal is about 70% carbon on average. That's 1400 lbs. of carbon. Combining each carbon atom (atomic weight 12) with 2 oxygen atoms (atomic weight 16) produces CO2 (atomic weight 44). So burning 1400 lbs. of carbon produces 5133 lbs of CO2. Put another way burning a ton of coal produces about 2.57 tons of CO2. Similar calculations can be made for other human activities that produce CO2 and we gather all sorts of statistics about those activities.
Second, the carbon in fossil fuels has a different C12/C13 ratio than the atmosphere as a whole because plants (the original source of the carbon in fossil fuels) prefers the lighter C12 over C13. So burning a lot of fossil fuels should change the C12/C13 ratio in the atmosphere and that change has been measured. And don't confuse this with carbon dating which uses C14. C12 & C13 are both stable.
I would say both of those facts are strong evidence that the CO2 increase in the atmosphere is due to human activities.
Dave
Your list is pretty much what I see happening if we don't effectively respond to the threat of climate change.
The money Jindal was referring to was $140M for the USGS for a number of different programs that include volcano monitoring but also earthquake, tsunami & flooding. It will be spent on upgrading and installing new, more advanced and automated equipment, hence spending money on new equipment and the salaries of those required to build and install the equipment, hence a small piece of a bigger stimulus bill.
And how about all that straw from the grass seed industry that they burn every summer here in Oregon?
... I invest with negative return expectations. E.g. I buy a concert ticket. The concert is over, the money is gone...
I still have concerts living in me that I went to in the 1960's. I'm happy with those investments. Money is far from the only thing I value, in fact it's not in the top 10, maybe not even top 100.
Okay, we just have a semantic difference. I guess you could say geographic information is a necessary adjunct of science and therefore a "sciencey" thing :-)