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More pecking from the iPhone touch pad ... @$&@/?!
Been reading about the latest Orwellian effort in the Obama junta... make CO2 a pollutant. Climate Science (www.climatesci.org) ... don't even think about creating links on an iPhone ... had a really good post on the folly of this yesterday (2/20/09). But this fine analysis misses the point: the EPA and all of the alarmist organizations and their lawyers are missing the "root cause."
Without O2, their could be no CO2. O2, as every scientist knows, is highly corrosive and poisonous in some situations. It will take a perfectly good bridge girder and turn it into a pile of rust... endangering all who cross the bridge. In our bodies, O2 causes all manner of ills. That's obvious from all of the ads for anti-oxidants... can't "oxidize" without that O2. But the real danger to all of us from O2 is that it converts perfectly harmless carbon into melting glaciers, desert infernoes, and spreading malaria.
It is just like the government to ignore the root-cause of a problem and treat the symptoms. Rather than waste trillions of dollars chasing CO2, go after the O2. By clearing whole forests and other areas of vegetation, O2 production could be reduced dramatically. The would also address the jobs issue by increasing the opportunities for paving huge expanses. And it would reduce the formation of other poisons formed with O2... NO/NO2... SO/SO2... etc.
Yes, we must pressure our government to act rationally and begin to severely constrain O2 in our environment.
Or maybe the government could just go on a long vacation and not worry about "protecting" us so much.
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