CO2 rocks!

PCP?

Specifically to the east coast of Australia, in New South Wales, where the fires are burning. You can make some global generalisations about climate change, but you end up coping with what actually happens in a specific area.

The weather systems that cross New South Wales mostly come in from the west. They may pick up water from the Great Australian Bight, bu there's no guarantee that it will make it to New South Wales.

The fire service spent the winter doing "fuel reduction" burns, as they have been doing for many years now. Not enough of them, as it turned out.

They aren't popular with people who live nearby, but they do tend to change their minds about half an hour before the fire front arrives.

The landscape is going to burn sooner or later, regardless of the weather patterns. Wetter weather just builds up the fuel load sooner. Eventually there has to be a relatively dry year, and then things burn. People, by putting out frequent small fires, guarantee less frequent big fires.

In a climate like Australia or California, the accumulating fuel load

It just burns slower. ;-)

That's why the fire service spends a lot of it's time starting "fuel reduction" fires, at times when these fires are unlikely to get out of control.

Sadly, creating numerous small control fires doesn't completely eliminate the risk of occasional very large fires.

At the moment. Given a bit more climate change, this may not continue to be the case.

You can't start a forest fire in most of Louisiana if you try.

The implication is that you've tried. Say something like that in Australia, and the police will throw you into jail immediately, for your own protecti on, before a lynch mob has had time to get together. And the legal system w ill keep you in jail until everybody has hadr a chance to forget.

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Hmm.. Guinness is said to use nitrogen. (Though for the froth not for the brew I suppose.)

petrus bitbyter

I think he means rotting is a slower oxidation. A lot of (most of?) the carbon still ends up as CO2.

My understanding is that in an earlier hotter, wetter time (the age of the dinosaurs) there was a lot of Louisiana on the planet. Isn't that how we got coal?

All that oil and gas in Louisiana comes from somewhere.

Note the general downward trend, especially in the last 150My. It's those damned stupid plants slurping the CO2 out of the air and converting it into oil and gas and coal far underground, and starving themselves in the process. We need to dig it back up and return it to the atmosphere, where it can do some good.

Yeah, but it wasn't worth having to explain the punch line.

Too bad that AGW is overly complex, grossly counterintuitive, and still wrong. Soon its corpse will also litter the public information byways as discredited nonsense.

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Strongly reminds me of several instances where, in southern California, where they insisted on building tract homes and such places as high chaparral environments (which burn off regularly about 3 to 7 years between) and whine and demand bailouts when the burns continue.

See also the massive yuppie Oakland fires some years ago.

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What part of willfully massively environmentally stupid begins to cover this?

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I wouldn't be to convinced about that, the solubility is piss poor by comparison, even at 2 to 3 atmospheres. It is plenty good at 10 atmospheres though. (bends)

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It is Idso crap. His CO2 antiscience output is risible so it isn't surprising that Larkin posts it here. What is interesting is that Jim Thompson can actually see through this crap because Larkin posted it.

Higher CO2 improves plant productivity for some plants that are diffusion limited on CO2 provided that there is sufficient water. Providing that water is the problem for agriculture and parts of the US are already hitting risk of desertification because of crass mishandling of groundwater and loss of ice pack in the Rockies.

Not at all. The lying dittoheads will eventually be forced to admit that CO2 is affecting the climate but by then serious damage to major coastal cities will be inevitable. I doubt very much if New York or New Orleans will still be populated cities in a couple of centuries or so.

We are like the Easter Islanders who trashed all their islands trees and then ended up in abject poverty and squalor when Captain Cook found them. We have to hope that some passing space travellers will one day dig us out of the energy and climate hole we are in the process of digging. Profligate waste is the American way and I don't hold out much hope of politicians grasping this nettle until it is far too late.

It goes without saying that they will all blame scientists for not explaining the consequences of their prevarication clearly enough!

Al Gore Throws Another Climate Lie On The Barbie

Cheers, James Arthur

Many low quality beers, including Guiness, use some nitrogen (see 'nitrokeg') to give a creamy head for marketing purposes.

Cheers