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Government finds cure for global warming

Posted 35 months ago|13 comments|736 views
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Byron Watson
Petal, MS
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!Cap and Trade almost here!!!
The government, headed by Barrack Obama has discovered the way to stop global warming!
Apparently, American taxpayer dollars have the ability to absorb greenhouse gasses and convert those gasses into something beneficial to the environment. Each dollar can only absorb a small amount, though, and Barrack himself has estimated 680 billion of them will be needed (and acquired from you, the taxpayer) over the next ten years to properly counter the effects caused by the carbon polluting evil energy providers. The beauty of the plan is that the providers will not have to pay the dollars to the government, it is the users of any form of power that get the honor of saving the planet by paying the special CO2 scrubbing dollars. Every time you put a drop of gas in your car, or turn on a light, or buy anything, Cha CHING!, you will be helping to save the planet.
Some of the money, after it has absorbed enough CO2, might be used to further alternative energy projects, such as solar panel production, except that silicon production has been banned in the U.S. due to the pollution created in the process. But we have plenty of third world nations we can pollute that will make the silicon for us.
But we just aren't sure just how wondermous this new discovery will turn out to be. It must be mind-blowing, more than our puny little minds can fathom, because the bulk of it is being kept secret, and even the lawmakers in congress are not being allowed to study it before they have to vote on it.
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35 months ago: Dang, that is too simple. Heat adsorbing dollars. I wonder who holds the patent.
35 months ago: That's Cap and Trade talk. Take it to a third world country who doesn't produce greenhouse gasses (except cattle farts), and sell it!
35 months ago: Siempre:
Yep, that change Obama is pushing is the destruction of our society.
Wake up please.
35 months ago: Hmmmnn keen observation. It's my theory the administration has managed to enable our dollar bills to function as CO2 slash Pixy Dust converters. It is a little known fact that Pixy Dust emits almost zero green house gases. If so then this is a brilliant coup by the Obama administration, all along we thought the idea was to rob our hard earned dollars to fund some crazy utopian fantasy. Yet if these CO2 scrubbing dollars actually convert that CO2 into Pixy Dust which has absolutely no observable emissions and is as if it does not exist at all then many Obama critics may be eating crow for lunch (heated by 100% Pixy Dust of course).
Rudi Stettner
Rudi Stettner
 Moderator
35 months ago: The scary thing is that they are probably sitting in an office in Washington trying to make this happen
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
33 months ago: The magic dollars you speak of would have worked almost as you described if we instated a Carbon Tax. Each dollar spent on fossil fuels would have a portion used to reduce CO2, and the use of fossil fuels would certainly decrease, thus cutting off funding sources of terrorists in the middle east. Unfortunately the Cap and Trade gave away 85% of the pollution credits. Obama wanted those magic dollars to be reimburse to you for higher energy prices, but the corporations and the Republicans took away your money.
Instead of giving the money to the corporations if they had given the money to you and me to bribe us to bike and carpool and use less fossil fuels it would have worked much better.
In Iraq "the Surge" used magic dollars to bring peace. We just gave $300/mo. to 80,000 Sunni insurgents and the fighting stopped! Hell of a lot cheaper than the $360,000 we spend for each of our troops each year. If we just gave this money to the people or to small businesses in Iraq to get them jobs, our guys could have stayed home.
33 months ago: Global warming is a very big issue because it involves everyone living and future lives, as well. Even if we could, at this moment, stop all atmospheric changes, if would could keep the exact gasses present now, in their exact ratios, global warming would continue for some years. What we have not done, we have not developed reliable improvements. Government and business will have to work together, somehow, to cause positive change.

Whether by force, by pollution police, or by voluntary work by business and government, we have to have cooperation to improve our condition.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
33 months ago: So, Altruist, what you are basically saying is that A) Obama is largely ineffective as a president, as he cannot get what he wants from an overwhelmingly Democrat congress. B) The large corporations who will benefit most from Cap and Trade, such as GE, (who owns major media, and promotes their own profits by pushing green) are the very same polluters that are stealing the cap and trade money. So redistribution of wealth is happening. That's what Obama wants, right? IT'S JUST BEING REDISTRIBUTED FROM YOUR HAND TO THEIRS.
It really sucks when you put faith in someone who just can't deliver.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
33 months ago: Terryeo,
If all man-made carbon emissions stopped today, within a few years the levels would back to the pre-industrialized levels. Plant life and the oceans sequester around 50 percent per year of all available CO2 in the atmosphere. Of course, decomposition and respiration re-contributes CO2.
Why do you suppose there is so much coal and oil in the earth? It is because plants lived, thrived, absorbed CO2, were eaten by large animals, or just died. They were then covered by sediment for millions of years. If the planet would not support life with more carbon dioxide in the air, how do you account for the massive vegetation it would have required to produce the amount of coal and oil we have already extracted from the earth?
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
33 months ago: Actually CO2 takes about 100 years to get out of the atmosphere. Methane which is 23 times as damaging doesn't hang around as long it will dissipate in 23 years. In the past we could count on the forests to remove about 1/3 of the CO2, and the oceans to remove CO2, but the rainforests are all being cut down and the oceans are reaching a saturation point and will not be able to absorb as much as it did before. When you look at the mechanism for how the oceans absorb CO2, the main way is through tiny animals that form a calcite skeleton which falls to the ocean bottom to eventually form limestone. Now however the acidification of the oceans from carbolic acid dissolves these skeletons. This makes it hard for these tiny creatures to make their skeletons and corals don't form reefs as well either which effects the fisheries of the world.
The point is that it will take hundreds of years to fix the damage we have already done, and while some plants will do better with the new conditions most will not be able to handle the changes and will go extinct. I hope the human race is not one of those.
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
33 months ago: OOTB Yes I am dissapointed that Obama isn't better at getting his programs through. Politics is the art of compromise. If he had started his bargaining positions to the left we might have ended up with centrist compromises. Instead he started at the center and we will end up with weak programs that satisfy more conservatives than liberals. Had he started with a carbon tax we might have ended up with an effective cap and trade with some teeth and pollution credits that were auctioned off. If he had started out with a single payer system we might have ended up with a public option that worked.
I don't get your second point. The corporations with the money now bribe the lawmakers so they get the pollution credits, there is no redestribution. I think when Bush came in he redistributed income to the rich. I would like to see the wealth distribution so there is not such record inequalities and return the tax code to where it was with Clinton. It used to be that the rich and corporations paid 60% of all revenue, now it is more like 40% and the middle class is paying more instead. I tend to think that the rich who are the only ones that can afford it, have a responsibility to pay the country back for the riches they have been given.
Although I am dissapointed that Obama is a pragmatist and willing to compromise in the name of bipartisanship, I am a million times happier with him than I would have been with McCain and Palin.

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