Out of Pod Experience

We have not had any lately, so here is a warm dish:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/20/norwegian-army-goes-vegetarian-to-fight-global-warming/

That sounds surprisingly un-doctory of him.

What about cheese? It had a mother in some sense.

Norway has an army?

Natural causes? There's nothing natural with ozone destruction by CFL. CFL destroy ozone, CFL are forbidden, as CFL levels at the ozonosphere diminish (with a 20 years lag) then ozone levels slowly get back to normality.

And I won't even comment on global warming. You're in your right to believe what better suits you, but reality is what it is to anyone interested in facts and not propaganda from recycled tobacco advocates.

I mean, when the same people who used to say that tobacco smoke is not bad in behalf of their tobacco corporation clients, now they all say that global warming is not real, or in case it was real is not related to the activities of their clients the oil corporations, it makes a lot of sense to trust them... if that suits you.

The next 50 years are only going to get worse no matter what we do. The best we can manage is damage control

Very soon we will lose any control we have. Once the lands above the tiger forest start to melt and the continental methane deposits collapse there will be nothing we can do. It wont be the first time Antarctica has been green but the speed at which it will happen is something new.

That said, I can see how filling a barracks with bean gas might help with the heating bill, just make sure none of them smoke in there...

Well, there's the issue of what do you do with it. Let's say you trade off CO2 in the air for a bunch of bacterias -what do you do with those billions of tons of bacterias? If you just let them die, the CO2 will return to the atmosphere.

The mechanical aspect of the matter is pretty simple: there's 150 millions years worth of underground sequestering of non-gaseous CO2 being released as gas into the atmosphere in a few over a hundred years. How do you return the genie to the bottle?

It's obvious that the right place for that CO2 is in a non-gaseous form and preferably back underground, but that takes litherally millions of years if we rely on biology and geology alone. To make things worst, sequestering that CO2 back takes an awful lot of energy (i mean, you need to concentrate something that's in the air, but at a ratio of 4 micrograms per kilogram) so all in all by sequestering it you are using way more energy than the energy released when you burned it.

What we need it's a mostly undestructable carbon compound that can be built without condensed energy, is biologically neutral and is usable for something as we've got to manufacture litherally billions of tons of it.

The magical answer is: photosynthesized plastic. But we're far from it at the moment, it doesn't even exists outside of our minds and a few laboratory experiences.

Of course I can't find them atm, but one of the most telling images that demonstrate the magnitude is contrasting photos of the mountains in Glacier National Park taken now and in 1965, when I was born.

The 1965 pics look like snow capped mountains. Now, there is hardly anything white visible at all. They may even have to remove 'glacier' from the park name if it keeps up any longer.

It't still too cold outside the window.