How many years' worth of petroleum is left in the ground?

[Politruk]

What keeps pushing the date back seems to be technological change.

Which is inherently unpredictable.

 

[Rightguide]

Of course, the advisability of leaving the oil in the ground unburnt, just so it doesn't add CO2 to the atmosphere, is a completely different discussion.

Time to shelve your green new deal fantasies. It's drill baby drill. Without Co2 there would be no trees.

 

[Politruk]

Time to shelve your green new deal fantasies. It's drill baby drill. Without Co2 there would be no trees.

There were trees before the first drop of petroleum was pumped. It's not necessary to them.

 

[Rightguide]

There were trees before the first drop of petroleum was pumped. It's not necessary to them.

There was always CO2 in the atmosphere. You should look up photosynthesis. Plants and trees cannot survive without carbon dioxide. CO2 is an essential ingredient in the process of photosynthesis, which is how they produce the energy they need to grow and survive. Without CO2, plants wouldn’t be able to produce glucose, their primary energy source, and would eventually die. So, in short, your fear of CO2 is without any merit.

 

[UltraChad]

There was always CO2 in the atmosphere. You should look up photosynthesis. Plants and trees cannot survive without carbon dioxide. CO2 is an essential ingredient in the process of photosynthesis, which is how they produce the energy they need to grow and survive. Without CO2, plants wouldn’t be able to produce glucose, their primary energy source, and would eventually die. So, in short, your fear of CO2 is without any merit.

BUTT DA COMWADS TOLD MEEH DAT DA COTEW IS BAD!!! AN DA RACE COMMUNISM WILL FIX IT!!!

 

[Politruk]

There was always CO2 in the atmosphere. You should look up photosynthesis. Plants and trees cannot survive without carbon dioxide. CO2 is an essential ingredient in the process of photosynthesis, which is how they produce the energy they need to grow and survive. Without CO2, plants wouldn’t be able to produce glucose, their primary energy source, and would eventually die. So, in short, your fear of CO2 is without any merit.

None of that has any relevance. The percentage of CO2 in the air started to drastically increase when the Industrial Revolution began, and the rise in average global temperature followed close behind. You know all this.

 

[Rightguide]

What keeps pushing the date back seems to be technological change.

Which is inherently unpredictable.

What is most unpredictable is the bottom axis of your IQ decline which you are now approaching Mariana Trench levels at supersonic speeds. I mean, how low can you go?

 

[Politruk]

What is most unpredictable is the bottom axis of your IQ decline which you are now approaching Mariana Trench levels at supersonic speeds. I mean, how low can you go?

I'm a LOT smarter than you. I have a genius-level IQ and three graduate degrees. You are incapable of anything above the intellectual level of a claymation Christmas special.

 

[Rightguide]

None of that has any relevance. The percentage of CO2 in the air started to drastically increase when the Industrial Revolution began, and the rise in average global temperature followed close behind. You know all this.

Tell us how much it has increased and the significance of how much of that can be reduced through any measure you can put forth.

 

[UltraChad]

I'm a LOT smarter than you. I have a genius-level IQ and three graduate degrees. You are incapable of anything above the intellectual level of a claymation Christmas special.

Yet you regularly rely on redefining terms to suit your narratives.......a remarkably strong indicator of low IQ.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

What is most unpredictable is the bottom axis of your IQ decline which you are now approaching Mariana Trench levels at supersonic speeds. I mean, how low can you go?

The crazy is strong with this one…I’m guessing he’ll go where no man has ever gone before…

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Yet you regularly rely on redefining terms to suit your narratives.......a remarkably strong indicator of low IQ.

Dunning-Kruger effect comes to mind…

 

[Politruk]

Tell us how much it has increased and the significance of how much of that can be reduced through any measure you can put forth.

The amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere has increased more than 20% in less than 44 years, owing largely to human activities, and representing well over 50% of the total increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since the onset of the industrial revolution (1750).

Reduction potential is much harder to know. But:

While the effects of human activities on Earth's climate to date are irreversible on the timescale of humans alive today, every little bit of avoided future temperature increases results in less warming that would otherwise persist for essentially forever. The benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions occur on the same timescale as the political decisions that lead to those reductions.
Without major action to reduce emissions, global temperature is on track to rise by 2.5°C to 4.5°C (4.5°F to 8°F) by 2100, according to the latest estimates.
But it may not be too late to avoid or limit some of the worst effects of climate change. Responding to climate change will involve a two-tier approach:

• “Mitigation” – reducing the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
• “Adaptation” – learning to live with, and adapt to, the climate change that has already been set in motion. The key question is, what will our emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants be in the years to come?

That's from NASA.

 

[Rightguide]

I'm a LOT smarter than you.

Relying upon leftwing propaganda is not a measure of upward intelligence levels, but as you demonstrate falling for it indicates lesser levels of intelligence and proselytizing it even more so. It only proves that ignorance loves company.

 

[Rightguide]

Dunning-Kruger effect comes to mind…

Yep, cognitive bias.

 

[Politruk]

Yep, cognitive bias.

Does not mean what you think it does.

 

[Rightguide]

The amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere has increased more than 20% in less than 44 years, owing largely to human activities, and representing well over 50% of the total increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since the onset of the industrial revolution (1750).

So what human activity in 1913 caused the hottest day on record 134+ degrees?

 

[Politruk]

So what human activity in 1913 caused the hottest day on record 134+ degrees?

Probably the same -- all this goes back to 1750.

 

[Politruk]

See Earth Temperature Timeline. And scroll to the bottom.

 

[Politruk]

Yet you regularly rely on redefining terms to suit your narratives.......a remarkably strong indicator of low IQ.

Says the moron who thinks he knows better than the professional psychologists who edit the DSM.

 

[Rightguide]

Probably the same -- all this goes back to 1750.

fact is that "human activity" probably involves cutting down more forests and fucking ourselves to death thus doubling and tripling the population and thus increasing human emissions of CO2. The truth is the climate has never been stable. It's been in constant change throughout the history of Earth. With at least six Ice Ages the history of man is a history of change and adaptation.

 

[UltraChad]

And I turned twenty-one in prison doin' life without parole!!!
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No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried!!
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[UltraChad]

Says the moron who thinks he knows better than the professional psychologists who edit the DSM.

LOL I know a political move when I see it.

Lefties think they can make things go away just be re-defining things to suit their narrative, you guys do it ALL THE TIME.

Hide behind your credentialism. It's all you've got.

 

[Politruk]

fact is that "human activity" probably involves cutting down more forests and fucking ourselves to death thus doubling and tripling the population and thus increasing human emissions of CO2.

Those are connected. Obviously. But, the problem is clearly not CO2 exhaled in human breath, if that's what you're thinking of.

The truth is the climate has never been stable. It's been in constant change throughout the history of Earth.

See post #44.

With at least six Ice Ages the history of man is a history of change and adaptation.

We're in an ice age now -- geologically it means any period when there is ice at the poles. There has not always, in Earth's history, been ice at the poles. But there has been ice at the poles at all times H. sapiens has existed -- we are not adapted to any other environment.

 

[Politruk]

Hide behind your credentialism. It's all you've got.

It's better than whatever you think you've got.