I know scientific facts are inconvenient , but atmospheric co2 is well over 400 parts per million now, up from around 270ppm in the late 1800s. So only wrong by a factor of 100.
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Just have a second read of what you wrote. There 100% is carbon in the atmosphere. You said it yourself. Carbon being present doesn’t mean it’s a chunk of charcoal, it means the element is present in molecules, like CO2.
I agree with you that burning wood is dumb, but it isn’t adding additional carbon into the environment. Burning coal and gas does add carbon into the system, which is causing all our current problems.
I’d somewhat disagree. Vegetation sequesters carbon, and in long (geological) time can remove it from the atmosphere permanently.
Burning vegetation doesn’t add million-year old carbon back into the system, but does actively sabotage the natural processes that draw current co2 out of the atmosphere. And right now, we need to keep every possible molecule of co2 out of the atmosphere by whatever means is handy.
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According to a 2023 FAO study, around 2.4 billion people use wood for energy.
In Gaza ATM, firewood has been the constant in fuel because of Israel restrictions on supply of other fuel or because of damage to infrastructure. It has kept bakeries open. Its additional use is now held back by price.
In the coming winter in Ukraine, there could be more recourse to firewood.
Apart from a carbon footprint, there has been an ongoing issue of desertification in Africa south of the Sahara. Additionally destruction of forests lead to so called natural disasters like floods and landslides.
Belarus is known as the lungs of Europe, the largest remaining forests that once covered the plains of Europe.
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Someone would have had to put them up to it.
Surely you guys are above this. Pretty low blow there.
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Bump for you @Shahid_Afridi, if you have more to post.
Great work as always
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Looks like the people of Florida are going to experience another deluge. It must be getting very difficult for Floridians to insure their dwellings these days.
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The global average concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the atmosphere is 421 ppm (0.04%) as of May 2022. This is an increase of 50% since the start of the Industrial Revolution, up from 280 ppm during the 10,000 years prior to the mid-18th century.
By mass, about 96 percent of our bodies are made of four key elements: oxygen (65 percent), carbon (18.5 percent ), hydrogen (9.5 percent) and nitrogen (3.3 percent)
And some more interesting times for the people of Europe. Kirk is Cat 4 status but will weaken as it heads towards France and England. A tropical storm in Denmark would be quite something. Anyway, we will see what happens.
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UK citizens coughing up £22bn so the fossil fuel industry can continue wreaking havoc on the environment. Starmer carrying on where the Tories left off which sounds familiar to what is happening in Australia.
https://x.com/SiOldridge/status/1842219501326119255?t=4D19X0y0VP6UvoXdyWlilg&s=19
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That’s depressing news.
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Just absolutely emblematic of how governments of all political persuasions all over the world treat climate change as an issue to be media-managed rather than a problem to be solved.
We’re at least as bad here.
To prevent the temperature from increasing by more than 0.5C (fact check, we’re already there), the government has committed to a 43% emission reduction by 2030 (fact check: there’s no modelling anywhere that says this is sufficient, 75% is the target calculated by the Climate Change Authority), and to achieve this they’re planning mass deployment of revegetation offsets (which are largely fraudulent), and CCS (which doesn’t work, and has never worked, anywhere), and the deliberate huge underestimation of emissions from the gas industry.
And this is allegedly the more PROGRESSIVE of the major two parties.
Just makes you fkg despair.
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This was eight years ago, but Trudeau’s comments stuck with me.
Milton is now officially a hurricane and is intensifying rapidly. Models still priject a direct hit on Tampa Bay, but it is still early days.
Still a lot of debris from Helene in the area and clean up ahead of Milton doesn’t seem to be going well.
