tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268551755123531151.post3105571786913999008..comments2023-12-14T20:59:24.369-08:00Comments on Thoughts on the Roof: Forget Climate ChangeWilliam Hughes-Gameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184766974497951683noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268551755123531151.post-34368248685310035272016-11-19T11:42:30.636-08:002016-11-19T11:42:30.636-08:00Reduced carbon (as opposed to oxidized carbon) in ...Reduced carbon (as opposed to oxidized carbon) in coal, oil, wood or any other carbon rich substance is feed stock for manufacturing fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, dyes, plastics and a vast further range of products. It is also use to reduce ores of metals (to combine with the oxygen in iron oxide ores, for instance, to free the iron). Each if these industries releases carbon dioxide, even if it is only in the final disposal of their products but at a vastly slower rate than if burnt for energy. There is the possibility that the remarkably stable climate we have experienced since the end of the last glacial (mistakingly called an ice age in some popular articles) is due to our production of Carbon dioxide. Man, long before the so called modern age has been firing forests, wiping out whole ecologies and in short, buggering up our planet. We are now releasing so much Carbon into the atmosphere that we have not only stopped the slow slide into the next glacial but have reversed the trend and may be heading for a climate similar to what we had before the present ice age, some two and a half million years ago. If reduced, sequestered geological carbon was used as a feed stock for industry, it might just be enough to hold our climate steady and avoid the next ice age while at the same time not sending us into a climate change so severe that much of our present civilization would be wiped out.William Hughes-Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06184766974497951683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268551755123531151.post-81005930032342218922016-11-12T15:39:20.395-08:002016-11-12T15:39:20.395-08:00"Using a resource which is far to valuable to..."Using a resource which is far to valuable to burn<br />Coal and oil are extremely valuable feed stocks for a whole raft of industries. If they were used as feed stocks rather than as fuel, they would last for Millennia instead of decades."<br /><br />I don't understand this. Could you expand on it a little? What good is coal to an industry if it is not burnt?<br /><br />ThanksBrucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00844755785726011521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268551755123531151.post-39037777765995637882011-12-05T18:52:09.290-08:002011-12-05T18:52:09.290-08:00Nice - thank you.Nice - thank you.J C Brookeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264014753628822373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268551755123531151.post-63983089841191075092010-11-16T20:46:03.323-08:002010-11-16T20:46:03.323-08:00Ahhh if only everyone had your clear head! Just re...Ahhh if only everyone had your clear head! Just remember the world can't end today because its already tomorrow in New Zealand...<br /><br />heidiMartinezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17111558762369350567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268551755123531151.post-14554320326075360982010-10-23T14:05:09.356-07:002010-10-23T14:05:09.356-07:00Very nice article! If only anybody would accept th...Very nice article! If only anybody would accept these obvious facts.<br />Stop wanting more and more of everything would help too. So that renewable energy wouldn't just be used for the increased (and unnecessary?) consumption.<br /><br />Greetings from GermanyAlex Siliamovhttp://www.facebook.com/alexander.siliamovnoreply@blogger.com