The Carbon Cycle

Now look at the diagram to the right supplied by windows2universe.org/. To the naked eye it may seem confusing and unrelated to the topic, but with a short explination you will be able to see how understanding this is essential to understanding the issue we're dealing with.

But let's focus on the latter* half of the picture. For one thing, this is now the dominant source of climate change if you didn't know already. To quote windows2universe.org
and adapted by fas.org/;

"When humans burn fossil fuels to power factories, power plants, cars and trucks, most of the carbon quickly enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide gas. Each year, five and a half billion tons of carbon is released by burning fossil fuels. That’s the weight of 100 million adult African elephants! Of the huge amount of carbon that is released from fuels, 3.3 billion tons enters the atmosphere and most of the rest becomes dissolved in seawater... But humans have burned so much fuel that there is about 30% more carbon dioxide in the air today than there was about 150 years ago. The atmosphere has not held this much carbon for at least 420,000 years according to data from ice cores. More greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in our atmosphere are causing our planet to become warmer... Each person in the U.S. generates approximately 2.3 tons of CO2 each year. A healthy tree stores about 13 pounds of carbon annually -- or 2.6 tons per acre each year. An acre of trees absorbs enough CO2 over one year to equal the amount produced by driving a car 26,000 miles."


And according to FAS.org, the world's forests are being removed at approximataly 1 acre per second. That equals 86,400 acres per day, 220 square miles or 350 square kilometres.

And considering that roughly one third of the earth's surface is forest, and the area of the earth according to hypertextbook.com is quote; "About 198 million square miles". That means that 65,340,000 square miles of the earth is forest. So math says that there will be a end to forest's in 3.3670033670033670033670033670034e-6 (e stands for exponent) days.

Have fun figuring that out... but it will be sooner than you think because I calculated it.

Hope you found this post educational!

* latter is another way of saying the back half of something, the last thing listed or sometimes to dictate that something is to thr right.

Melting sea ice

Here are some pics of our effect on the artic/antarctic regions:

Whats being done...?!? (cont.)

MY BLOG!

Ok, so in my last post I used the recent WalMart trickery as an example. But that was just the tip of the metaphorical ice-burg.

So now let's look at other myths and things out there...

Global warming is a HUGE issue that affects EVERYONE!. But then why are there so little legitamate* plans to stop it?

Let's look at Syncrude. They claim to be saving the environment by replanting and reclaiming the land thay they no longer use. While this process is great, kudos to them, they just promote this mainly to distract people form, the fact that their refineries are some of the most unefficient in the world! Yes, Syncrudes' main op on Refinery Row is operating at a mere 65% efficiency, compared to the industry standard 80%, and the nationalm average of 98.354. That's right, they don't even meet the standards that THEY organized.

That's just pathetic...

But what does 65% efficiency mean? That means that only 65% of the oil they proccess goes into our gas tanks. What happens to the rest? This low-octane liquid is burned uselessly in a dirty mannar or it is poured into vats which ultimataly leak into the environment.

So there you go... Pathetric.

Let's not support a company that is to cheap to upgrade their refineries from 60's tech that it's sporting. Let's not support the constant destruction of our earth.

* According to The Federation of American Scientists, a legitamate plan is one that is not being driven by a corperate CEO with the objective to make money.

What's being done...?!?

GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!! Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

oh btw this was all written in HTML! that's how I got these effects!

You hear about how screwed up everything is all over the place, on CNN, in the paper, on Facebook, even(maybe!) in chat rooms.

But what is really being done about it? I'd say the global effort is utterly pathetic. Oh, sure you hear about how "OMG, WalMart now uses 30% recycled paper!" They HAVE TO BE environmentaly friendly, right?

WRONG!!!

Yes, recyceling paper is good, but they choose to advertise this option for 3 reasons:

1:It makes them look good

2: It is the cheapest environmentally "friendly" practice (recycling paper bursn sooooooooooooooo much fossil fuels its insane!

3: It actually saves them money over standard paper and was only orignally decided as an economic move! The big corperate wall-street CEO's don't (pardon my french) give a *bleep* about our environment.

I hope you found this post educational. I will look into the issue of false advertising in later posts!

Global Warming Stats

Here are some stats about GLOBAL WARMING brought to you by the Federation of American Scientists and ClimateAmerica:

Global sea temperatures have risen by 2.30045 degrees average over the past 15 years. Also accidity levels have gone up from an average of 7.985pH to 7.0015 and this may not seem like much nat all, but all the orgamisms that have evolved in very specific conditions are dying off and anything that isn't going extinct is developing health problems, mutations and high levels of toxins via bioaccumulation.

Also because of the increase in polution both in the air and oceans, many polutants have been acumulating in the oceans, including a suprisingly large amount of radioactive material. This dense material is sinking to the bottom, irradiationg and mutating all creatures along its fall.

Here is a graphic on accidity differential:

http://www.seakeepers.org/images/ph-map.gif

(IMAGE IMPROPER FORMAT)

The Atmosphere:

Here is a table on the composition of the atmosphere as of January 31st, 2011:

(ppmv: parts per million by volume)

Gas Volume
Nitrogen (N2) 780,840 ppmv (78.084%)
Oxygen (O2) 209,460 ppmv (20.946%)
Argon (Ar) 9,340 ppmv (0.9340%)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) 390 ppmv (0.039%)
Neon (Ne) 18.18 ppmv (0.001818%)
Helium (He) 5.24 ppmv (0.000524%)
Methane (CH4) 1.79 ppmv (0.000179%)
Krypton (Kr) 1.14 ppmv (0.000114%)
Hydrogen (H2) 0.55 ppmv (0.000055%)
Nitrous oxide (N2O) 0.3 ppmv (0.00003%)
Carbon monoxide (CO) 0.1 ppmv (0.00001%)
Xenon (Xe) 0.09 ppmv (9×10−6%) (0.000009%)
Ozone (O3) 0.0 to 0.07 ppmv (0 to 7×10−6%)
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) 0.02 ppmv (2×10−6%) (0.000002%)
Iodine (I2) 0.01 ppmv (1×10−6%) (0.000001%)
Ammonia (NH3) trace

Data supplied by wikipedia.org and fas.org

The Aral Sea

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Vozrozhdeniye Island, Uzbekistan (Once part of Soviet Union)...

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A top secret Russian Bio-Lab sits here. Now it is abandond, but durng the Cold War it was fully operational. But it is not this abandoned building that is so bad, but the surounding. The Russians chose to build it there because it was surounded by uninhabitable salt-marshes for hundereds of miles around. Now though, you can see the drastic effect of global warming on the lake. And because of this, now animals can enter the facility and become exposed to super-concentrated geneticaly-enhanced versions of virusus, including antherax, bubonic plague and others that were "suposidly destroyed" in a government coverup. And because there is no cure or resistance/immuntiy for these superbugs, it would become a worldwide deadly pandemic. Oh, and F.Y.I, there is NO SECURITY in this facility. If I was a terrorist, I would take the next flight to Russia and wal;k right in there. Yaaaay, Bioloads! How fun...

Behold... a future very grim.

There are currently 6.6 billion people in the world today. 50 years ago there were 2.75 billion. By 2020 there will be over 9 billion. When (or if...) 2050 arrives, there will be an estimated 35 billion people.

Just pause a sec and let that number sink in: 35 billion people. That's more than 5 times the amount we have now-in less than 40 years. Just think about what life will be like if we don't change...

Widespread famine; the agricultural demands of our species have grown so much our planet can no longer supply us. Disease; the global population density will have risen to the extent where a pandemic could cross the globe in days, and it would easily take the lives of the frail, starved inhabitants of earth. Heat waves; the pollution will have risen to such a level that heat can no longer escape causing global temperatures to substantially rise. Civil war; people will fight for the last remaining resources on the planet...

And if it seemed like it couldn't get any worse, if humanity was somehow able to survive that all, then (the lack of) one little element in a soup of matter would bring our demise as a species... Oxygen. Global oxygen levels have dropped by over %10 in the last 40 years. Eventually in our future we will reach a point where oxygen is so scarce, we will all literally choke alive. Even if we keep deforesting and emmiting CO2 at our CURRENT levels, not counting the expected rise of this in the future; we will hit this ir-reversible point by the year 2045. That's 35 years from now.

We need to somehow rapidly change the world population and energy sources, quick... Unless you plan in being dead in 30 or-so years, then this is THE one and only issue on your plate. yes, hunger and all this other stuff is a big problem, don't get me wrong. But we are setting ourselves up for suicide. We need to focus on this first, and quick!

Poll Results

My first poll showed that most of you use Windows (12), a small number of you use Mac (5) and only 1 other person besides me uses Linux.

Hope you answer the next poll I have set up at the bottom of the page!

Note that for the new one you may check off all that apply.

Eeyyy...!

Ok, had to revise my 1st post. Also got rid of AdSence. I'l have lots of typos in my posts. Trying to decide my global issue; there are so many.