Ancient ice shelf breaks free in Canadian Arctic

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    searchlightsoul wrote:
    Those gases that kill you from your car.....its carbon monoxide not CO2. CO2 is not a pollutant.

    Oh yea, doh!

    Carbon Monoxide would be CO, Carbon Dioxide being CO2. Why didn't anyone else catch that?
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    Carbon monoxide (CO) is not considered a direct greenhouse gas, mostly because it does not absorb terrestrial thermal IR energy strongly enough. However, CO is able to modulate the production of methane and tropospheric ozone. The Northern Hemisphere contains about twice as much CO as the Southern Hemisphere because as much as half of the global burden of CO is derived from human activity, which is predominantly located in the NH. Due to the spatial variability of CO, it is difficult to ascertain global concentrations, however, it appears as though they were generally increasing until the late 1980s, and have since begun to decline somewhat. One possible explanation is the reduction in vehicle emissions of CO since greater use of catalytic converters has been made.

    from NOAA
  • yield2me
    yield2me Posts: 1,291
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Yes, the initial changeover may cost money BUT I'm sure rapeseed oil will be cheaper than that stuff they grow in Iraq! But I can really see those rapeseed companies becoming multinational tycoons invading other countries and guarding their rapeseed fields :o ah well, we'll never change I guess.


    You make a good point. I think as human beings we will always find a way to exploit a situation and make money. That will never change.
    “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” - Frank Sinatra
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    onelongsong wrote:
    i miss ice fishing. use the little "spring" bobbers on your poles. you'll do much better.
    i'd like to hear FLAG UP again too.

    lol! we don't even use poles... we use the old-fashioned "tippies"... just a hunk of wood with a nail through it, balanced on a stand with a couple of weights.... no reel... gotta bring 'em up by hand! :eek: :)

    i will put a flag on mine this year though! :cool:

    FISH ON! will become FLAG UP! :D
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Incase anybody wants to see some pics:
    http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/technology/228/
    You've changed your place in this world!

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