So, must be that warm climates create more water vapour, that holds "more" CO2 in total, not as a percentage. However, there must be a temperature that absorbs most, as cold water will eventually become ice.
Carbon offsetting for expeditions
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langcliffe
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I'm not sure that the word "must" has much place in scientific reasoning.
The highest solubilty of CO2 in water is at 0 degrees , when it is about seven more times soluble than 60 degrees C.
I know little about tropical karst, but I suspect that the reason tropical caves tend to be larger than temperate ones is that the rain drains through more rotting vegetation, and hence becomes more acidic. I am happy to learn otherwise.
langcliffe
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That's fuzzy thinking. If I am right in my supposition, the temperature of the water is pretty irrelevant.
You are likely correct, there being more CO2 present from decomposition in the warmer environment. The problem with the solubility question is that most of the data refers to sea water, which doesn't freeze at zero, but depends on the concentration of salt (very few chemical reactions rely on only a single variable).
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2xw
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Your Malthusian ideas are centuries old and they've been wrong for all all that time too. The problem with the idea of overpopulation is it supposed that human beings are herd animals and not thinking apes - our population hasn't risen as a consequence of some breeding frenzy, it's risen to meet human ingenuity (Norman Borlaug, take a bow).
China tried your idea, and indeed in many ways our politicians do now by making having children financially difficult - it doesn't lead to population reduction and greater abundance shared among those few that are left - it just leads to food rotting in fields and old people not being cared for.
The natural line of thought that must follow from thinking we are overpopulated is to do the most honourable thing - you first!
To contribute to the topic, Badlad I think donating to an organisation like Moors for the Future is probably your most cost effective means of offsetting emissions. Or the Yorkshire Peat Partnership, any bog restoration organisation really, it holds more carbon than any other environment (as long as you don't plant trees on it!)
langcliffe
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I know of no solubility question. The only thing that I was refuting was your unambiguous statement "I know that warm water absorbs more CO2 than cold".
In your statement above, you imply that freezing is a chemical reaction. It isn't. It's a phase change.
Cosmo Smallpiece
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Before we go too far off on a tangent, it's worth considering the reliability of this Ralph Ellis chap whose posted videos started these distractions. His various books include one where the Scots and Irish are descendants of Tutankhamen. In another fantasy he claims that Jesus was the Grandson of Cleopatra. It's all pseudo nonsense written for the gullible who buy his books. Yes he's written about the Holy Grail too.
Here's a part summary of one if his conspiracy works "Will the twin fundamentalist forces of Environmentalism and Islam take us back to the Dark Ages, and into a new era of fear, ignorance and oppression?" - Says the guy asking us to ignore actual science.
So back to carbon offsetting?
Here's a part summary of one if his conspiracy works "Will the twin fundamentalist forces of Environmentalism and Islam take us back to the Dark Ages, and into a new era of fear, ignorance and oppression?" - Says the guy asking us to ignore actual science.
So back to carbon offsetting?
cap n chris
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ChrisJC
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Humans have been trying to grow their population for ever. Familes with 10 children were the norm 150 years ago, before the welfare state and it's incentives. But mortality before old age (disease, starvation, war) ensured that the population did not increase by much if at all.
We have fixed all of those issues (pesky advances in science), that's why the population is now increasing a lot.
I don't believe they are reasons not to try to reduce the population. I know that politicians still go on about the need for population increase (hence their addiction to immigration), but I would rather see a decrease and find a way to solve the problems that are caused. I think those problems would be easier to solve than those caused by an ever increasing population.
Not having children I think is equivalent, but without the pain.
Chris.
The problem is that it was an ambiguous statement, & in the latter I was referring to how H2O reacts in different states.
Anyway, pretty much only Norway has invested in it's future & the rest of the world can't afford to live without increasing population (to pay for NHS etc)
Norway is dependant on everyone else not going broke. They have hardly any means of generating revenue beyond oil and gas. Most other business beyond metals that existed have collapsed due to high labour costs.
Anyway, I was thinking of investing a chunk in war bonds:
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sorslibertas
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WTF did I just watch?
langcliffe
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Something with the same amount of credibility as the first of his videos that was linked to!
Cosmo Smallpiece
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On another side track, does anyone know of an actual carbon offset forest planted in the UK? Something that I could actually visit and see for myself.
Yorkshire Dales Woodland Restoration - UK Woodland Carbon Code
UK Woodland Carbon Code
Other examples available through the menu.
cap n chris
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It's very heartening, reassuring and soul-calming to know that Malthus was incorrect, and that human population numbers/growth per se are nothing to worry about and that carbon offset voluntary/mandatory taxes will resolve everything. Sleeping well at night is important and my earlier concerns about unchecked human population growth being an issue which required addressing can now be set aside. I am totally AOK with going along with this and will forevermore STFU about the topic*
* Probably ;-) Although I'm still a bit fuzzy about how the planet will provide 30bn meals per day by 2050, but hey ho,... not my bad/prob. Yayski.
* Probably ;-) Although I'm still a bit fuzzy about how the planet will provide 30bn meals per day by 2050, but hey ho,... not my bad/prob. Yayski.
Cosmo Smallpiece
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I couldn't have hoped for a better set of examples. Lots of details packed into that link on types of tree etc. Lots of coverage in Scotland, which I was particularly interested in. Thanks for posting.
