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Subject: Re: The Kilauea Volcano is Erupting Again
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:17:17 -0500
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On 2024-12-24 4:06 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 12/24/2024 3:06 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2024-12-24 12:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> It's spewing billions of tonnes of Co2 into the Earths atmosphere. But
>>> sure, keep thinking spending billions of dollars on carbon capture and
>>> stopping cow farts is going to change the weather.
>>>
>>> I wonder how Newsom is going to address this problem (since only 
>>> California
>>> under his leadership can save the earth, dontcha know). Maybe a per 
>>> capita
>>> volcano tax on all countries that have them, since It's a proven fact 
>>> that
>>> if you pay more taxes, the weather will change. (And by proven fact, 
>>> I mean
>>> a quasi-religious leap of faith.)
>>>
>>> He's already having to deal with the results of the Stanford study that
>>> found that the carbon released by just one moderate-sized wildfire wipes
>>> out all the 'climate change' gains of the last 20 years in 
>>> California. And
>>> how many mid-to-large wildfires do we have every year?
>>>
>>> Fun fact: the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens released more carbon into the
>>> atmosphere than all of humanity has since we split from the 
>>> Neanderthals.
>>
>> I saw a video a couple of years back that was from a PBS series called 
>> Eras (which may or may not make it scientific fact AND perceived fact 
>> to the Left) that asserted that there was a time that the levels of 
>> CO2 in the air were much higher than they are now due to volcanoes but 
>> then the levels had gone considerably lower. Given that this was many 
>> millions of years before anything resembling human life existed, we 
>> know this was NOT caused by men nor repaired by men.
>>
>> The only logical deduction to make from this is that the earth 
>> harbours its own mechanisms to reduce CO2 that don't depend on people 
>> to activate it. Maybe it's time to research that and figure out what 
>> that mechanism is. It may well be that the carbon problem will take 
>> care of itself without expensive human intervention that is 
>> simultaneously frustrated by natural events that release carbon.
>>
>> As for Newsom, maybe he can finally allow tax money to be spent on 
>> thinning the underbrush that apparently makes the wildfires much worse 
>> that they might otherwise be. Instead of protecting obscure species of 
>> by protecting their habitats, he could put them in controlled 
>> environments that would let them flourish a different way.
> 
> Top of my head, yes, the earth does harbor such a mechanism.  It's 
> called 'plant life", which indeed goes nuts when there's abundant CO2. 
> But I wouldn't count on its promptness to save human civilization.
> 
> 
Well then, I guess we can just give up on the idea of a simple solution 
- or an alternate one - now that YOU have decided the issue.


-- 
Rhino