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On 9/19/2024 5:03 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 9/19/2024 2:47 PM, quadibloc wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 0:08:18 +0000, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> Chemical saturation limits EVERYTHING but is rarely taken into account.
>>
>> Given that the proportion of carbon dioxide in the
>> atmosphere is measured in parts per million, I had
>> not thought of that as an important factor just yet.
>>
>> If the carbon dioxide level got high enough that it
>> was an issue... long before that point was reached,
>> global warming would no longer be the most important
>> consequence of the CO2 concentration. Instead, the
>> toxicity of CO2 would have led to the extinction of
>> human life.
>>
>> John Savard
> 
> There have been extensive studies on the level of CO2 toxicity.
> 
> Some people get a headache at 0.5% (5,000 ppm).  Many people get a 
> headache at 1.0% (10,000 ppm).  People start dying at 15% (150,000 ppm).
> 
> The Apollo 13 astronauts were subjected to high CO2 levels, very close 
> to 15% before the ground crew figured out how to reduce the CO2 content 
> in the much warmer capsule as the LEM was under -100 F or so.
> 
> It is a fact that the Earth has experienced much higher levels of CO2 in 
> the far distant past, up to 8,000 ppm.
> 
> If CO2 toxicity was a serious problem, then hydrocarbon (coal, fuel oil 
> natural gas) power plant workers would be continuously sick as the 
> stacks emit 10% to 20% CO2 depending on load of the device.

Which is part of why they have the stacks in the first place; to
get those gases away from the plant.

Try sitting at the top of the chimney, with your head in the flow,
and tell us how it makes you feel.

pt