Carbon Footprint

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months … http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289
From the article link above, "And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year."

Looks like we have more ice caps and glacers now. I say humans and all their carbon footprint CO2 hardly contribute global warming(or global cooling as we have now) but the sun determines our climate change as more CO2 would actually help produce more healthy plants where we get our food from like fruits and vegetables as you can read more here http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

Global cooling/ice age would actually be worse for all.

I’m just wondering what single color is best for overall camouflage. What color is not noticeable to the human eye and what color can work in any environment? Anywhere from forests, to the tundra, to the arctic. Black, purple, gray, green?

I’m just wondering what single color is best for overall camouflage. What color is not noticeable to the human eye and what color can work in any environment? Anywhere from forests, to the tundra, to the arctic. Black, purple, gray, green?

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In the process of researching carbon footprint issues, I’m left to consider the origins of the coal and oil which fuels so much of our modern world. Science tells us that enormous pressures and heat underground converted dead biomasses into hydrocarbons. But how does the process remove the enormous amount of oxygen (such as in fats/carbohydrates) that is bound to carbon and hydrogen in living things?

Plus, the process is basically one of reversing oxidation, since one starts with lots of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulpher, and phosphorus (and various other elements) combined in countless ways with oxygen — and ends with almost straight carbon (such as in anthracite coal) and hydrocarbons (such as petroleum and natural gas). The end product packs a LOT of energy, so I would like to understand where the energy comes from and how it gets into coal and oil while the oxygen and other non-carbon/hydrogen elements get removed. Textbooks usually say little more than "eons of pressure and heat transforms the dead biomass" but doesn’t usually tell us how.

Can someone summarize the process or direct me to a descriptive webpage?
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I don’t understand how Rwrwrwr is addressing the question. Explanation anyone?

(Or is your point that the idea of biomasses containing oxygen and coal/oil containing carbon is part of a global warming "hoax"?)

i mean, the traits that my parents had in me (hereditary), is not likely i wanted..how can i change this by the influence of environment?

Mr. Change says he is going to "conserve" and they fly this jet around with fighter escorts to take pictures. Don’t bother even mentioning George Bush, you democrats, Bush never preached that we have to "conserve".
Paul S - so you are saying the carbon footprint is no larger than Rush Limbaugh’s posterior? Wrong - a carbon footprint is not an "area" or a "volume" measurement. Try to educate your democrat mind.
Skc - yes there are a lot more idiots than smart people in this country so your stats are correct. Since Barry didn’t know about any of this before hand, why did they bother telling him afterwards? (puppet)

Just curious. When selecting a candidate during an election. How important is teir plans for the environment and conservation to you?