Carbon footprint

[Mike Trident]

Pets have a much larger carbon footprint than our cars, well that's a turn up for the books

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-ne...pollution-cars

[mileshawk56]

An interesting point- the carbon footprint of for instance the millions of American buffaloes that roamed the North American plains or the many other grass/plant eating massive herds there and in Africa must have been considerable before we killed them off-do the climate experts factor that ?figure? into their calculations? Chris S.

[bsafly]

Does that mean we will all be required to have electric pets by 2035?

[Kevin Williams]

You can see how folk will get ready for electric pets: call them all Sparky!

Could be a great wheeze for sales folk as no hairs, no toiletting, no walks needed. but you'd probably need an animal with a hamster wheel to generate some electricity to make it all work!

[skellum]

Originally Posted by bsafly

Does that mean we will all be required to have electric pets by 2035?

I do know someone who says their Rabbit needs batteries

[The Rovering Member]

Originally Posted by skellum

I do know someone who says their Rabbit needs batteries

Don't forget the dolphins.

[Darcydog]

So CO2 is somehow a pollutant. And yet all plants photosynthesise taking in CO2, combining it with water to produce carbohydrates that we can eat and Oxygen that we breath.

6CO2 + 6H20 = via photosynthesis C6H12O6 + O2

Something I alway find fascinating is that Chlorophyll in plants that enables photosynthesis is that it is the same molecule as our Haemoglobin - the only difference is that our haemoglobin that enables us to transport O2 to our organs and CO2 away from them, has an iron (Fe) atom held in the centre whilst the Chlorophyll molecule has an atom of Magnesium (Mg)

The irony of this to owners of MG cars should not be overlooked !!

But on a serious note - the climate change zealots do not like it when you point out that “Yes! CO2 levels have increased a bit of late - but whilst 400ppm up from, say 390ppm sound scary - expressing this level as a percentage of CO2 in our atmosphere puts it in a different perspective 0.04% up from 0.039% seems to calm things down a tad.

Them we have past levels of CO2 - circa 400ppm (parts per million) is at the low end of historical CO2 levels, which have been as high as 7000ppm and yet life flourished abundantly.

And if you look back over graphs of Geological Timescale and Concentration of CO2 and Temperature record - it becomes clear that there is no correlation at all between the two.

My hobby horse is the demonisation of CO2 leads to badly flawed decisions. Like promoting diesel cars because they have lower CO2 than petrol/LPG cars but ignoring all the particulates and NOX’s that diesels produce.

Let’s not mince words here! - the Green Talibans ideology that put diesels on our urban streets has killed people.

Equally bad is the deforestation so that palm oil can be produced so we can run our diesels on bio-fuel. This ignores the grubbing up of huge swathes of rain forest that is home to the likes of the Orangutan - and this was deemed acceptable to the Greens as we in the west had to virtue signal to the world just what we would do to our world in order to meet a green target.

NASA has now shown that slightly higher CO2 has helped the green the planet via increased plant biomas.

Without CO2 we would all be dead.

The world is actually in a period of low CO2 levels as proved by the fact that Market Gardeners pump CO2 into their greenhouses to increase yield.

[Westonboy]

When Mount St Helens erupted in the eighties more carbon dioxide was pumped into the atmosphere in the first weeks than had been produced by human activity in a millenia. 9 million tons in the first hour, who's kidding who? Climate change, the most lucrative ponzi scheme yet invented.

[bl52krz]

In my 82nd year of being on this rock floating around the sun, I have come to the conclusion that the human race, some of them anyway, are to stupid to understand what a load of rubbish they are being fed. I would sincerely like to have a serious discussion with these people who imagine that the end of the world is around the corner. I would like to invite them to have a look back in history at certain incidents that took place and are still taking place (volcanic eruptions) as mentioned above by Westonboy. Have a look at the results for the last 12 months of the amount of carbon that was still in the air after the curtailment of a lot of manufacturing which pump carbon into the atmosphere. There is one thing those that really believe the rubbish, you have the solution in your own hands, hold you breath for half hour,. There will be no global problem then.

[MacRob]

The government conveniently hit their reduction targets last year by May and again this year by the end of February. Expect at least another couple of lockdowns in the next few years so they can hit the targets they promised they would reach by 2025.
I have asked these people time and again to explain how the last Ice age ended and the planet heated up. Funny as none of them can answer it. It’s like they all fail to mention the 30 plus volcanos under the ice caps (about a 3rd are active) when it comes to causes of them melting. Oh no, it’s our cars and mankind as a whole that is to blame.
Remember when they told us back in the late 80s that within 10 years the sea levels would have risen by meters? Never happened. Or the hole in the Ozone would NEVER repair? Again, wrong as its already 2rds smaller than it was. It’s all to do with money and nothing else. Always has been and always will be.