Tim Curtin insists on topping himself.....
Not only does he start by blowing two orders of magnitude in his favor....
Industrial production of CO2 at 100 million tonnes in 2005 growing at 10% pa (your figure) will overtake fossil fuel emissions of 25 billion tonnes of CO2 growing at net 0.005% pa (the actual rate of growth of CO2 at Mt Louai in Hawaii) by 2067.fossil fuel emissions of 25 billion tonnes of CO2 growing at net 0.005% pa (the actual rate of growth of CO2 at Mt Louai in Hawaii) by 2067Only to catch himself half an hour later
Re Eli again, a correction, I mistyped the CO2 growth rate at the Hawaii station, it is 0.5% p.a. ( which is what I used in my extrapolation). Apologies.But he can't figure out how to spell Mauna Loa (nice picture here).
He can't figure out that when the hare of the day (Happy Easter to all) said:
Yes, if you have one buck to your name and your money grows by 10%, while Bill Gates' money grows by 5%, your money is growing faster than his. And at the end of the day you got $1.10, and he got several hundreds of million $ in extra interest.The 10% rate of increase did not refer to the growth of CO2 production for industrial gases. That looks to be ~3% or so (at least in the US).
As Chris O'Neill pointed out on Deltoid II even the correction is a bit shifty
BTW, the atmospheric CO2 is growing at 2% of the atmosphere's anthropogenic CO2 per year. If you want to model atmospheric CO2 with an exponential growth curve, try to remember that it didn't start at zero as an exponential growth curve does.But wait, there is more, on an absolute basis, the rate of increase is closer to 0.7% than 0.5% (2.6 ppm/381 ppm current) and if you look at it as a percentage of preindustrial (280 ppm), then it is close to 1%.
Ian Gould is starting to make the point that most of the CO2 used for industrial purposes, ends up, guess where, in the atmosphere......
However there is another important question to ASK Tim Curtin: Where did that 100 million ton figure from, and in what sense it is using production. A lot of CO2 is produced in various industrial processes (brewing beer being my favorite) but very little of it is captured for industrial purposes.
Stephen Berg ASKS an important question:
Why are we squabbling over such a minor detail when there is a lot of work to be done to save our planet from ecological catastrophe?To which the obvious answer is that when folk like Tim Curtin start throwing sand in the air, you need to show their propaganda up for what it is so that folk like Stephen Berg will see them for what they are, and what they are is not making any kind of contribution to an honest discussion.
Off to deliver......
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Dear Eli Rabett
Tim Lambert with characteristic dishonesty has scrambled my totally factual response to your own trolling (to use his word).
Reconstructing my posting, what I said was:
Go to www.bccresearch.com/energy/E131.html
and for US$3950 (be my guest!) you can find that global sales of Carbon dioxide from utilization and recovery (eg from Alumina refineries) were no less than US$3.2 billion in 2003, and projected by BCC to grow at 2.4% pa to 2008 (at least). Your own troll against me ridiculed my point (which underlies the US Australian China et al gang of 5 preference for tech and market forces to deal with CO2) and proposed a growth rate of 10%; I freely accept that was too high, but it is your figure (I realise for debating and ridicule purposes but then if you play that game you must abide by the rules!).
Applying the price of US$32 per short ton from the link you kindly provided for the USA market, the golbal figure of US$3.2 billion implies a global tonnage of very close to 100 million tonnes of CO2 production p.a., which is exactly the figure I used but which you claimed was too high by a factor of 2.5, relative to your best estimate of 40 million tonnes pa.
The BCC report proposes a growth rate for global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel of 2.4% pa, but this is way too high, as the International Energy Annual shows actual growth from 1980 to 2003 of only 1.38% pa. That average covers a wide range, including 0.87% pa for the USA and nearly 4% pa for China. I ended my post with a suggestion that if Tim Lambert and his friends would drop their opposition to nuclear ennergy maybe the golbal growth of CO2 would decline towards the USA's 0.87% pa. Such is his devotion to truth and honest inquiry he suppressed my post. Will you do the same? I believe not, as I have so far found you to be honest.
Thanks for this, Eli!
-Stephen Berg
Eli,
I still await your retraction re the volume of global industrial CO2 production, or are you like Lambert a non-apologiser?
Re: Tim Curtin's "I still await your retraction re the volume of global industrial CO2 production, or are you like Lambert a non-apologiser?"
It doesn't matter what is what. As I asked earlier, why are we squabbling over such a minor detail when there is a lot of work to be done to save our planet from ecological catastrophe?
Stop trying to prevent action by using distraction tactics! Your kind will have the guilt of this ruined planet if you succeed and the world dies. You'll have more blood on your hands than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and other genocidal dictators put together.
-Stephen Berg
I may have overstated my position in my above post. However, not by a lot. Millions of species will become extinct and millions more people will perish as a result of climate change, resulting from human activity, if we do not act now and with fairly hefty regulations.
These "skeptics" are attempting to prevent this political and individual action from occurring, so they deserve a large proportion of the blame for the stalling tactics we see from elected officials in North America and Australia.
-Stephen Berg
Dear Stephen
I hope you avoid such extremism in your thesis, worse even than Sue Blackmore's. You could broaden your understanding of CO2 and climate by reading "A History of Atmospheric CO2 and its efects on plants, animal, and ecosystems", by James R Ehelringer, Thure E Cerling and M Denise Dearing (Springer 2005). Contributors include Charles Keeling and none could be termed skeptics, but they do whether they meant to or not show the beneficial impacts of atmospheric CO2 even at levels way above today's 380 ppm. BTW, even the Great Satan, without signing Kyoto has gross emissions growing at only 0.86 % pa since 1980, cf. China at 3.93% pa, so clearly Mao's successors will emulate Mao himself in terms of human slaughter, unless allowed by Australia's ALP to expand their nuclear energy output.
Re: "Contributors include Charles Keeling and none could be termed skeptics, but they do whether they meant to or not show the beneficial impacts of atmospheric CO2 even at levels way above today's 380 ppm."
You're sounding like the "Greening Earth" loonies who are just out to allow for the continued rate of coal and oil production. They try to paint a rosy picture on the continued use of coal and oil, when the real picture is far more bleak.
As for "the beneficial impacts of atmospheric CO2 even at levels way above today's 380 ppm", they are few and far between, while the consequences of this would be far greater. The scales would tip far more in the direction of a problematic scenario rather than a beneficial scenario.
By the way, who the heck is Sue Blackmore?
-Stephen Berg
Stephen:
Sue can be found via Deltoid or The Guardian - she argues for eliminating at least 5 billion people now to save the world for herself and the ants.
This article of Blackmore's sounds fairly sensible, actually:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sue_blackmore/2006/03/billions_are_going_to_die_but.html
That is, if climate change is not combatted. If it is fought and is held off, we'll be OK.
The Archbishop's comments on the radio programme are very good, as well.
Stephen Berg
Tim Curtin, please read this:
An excellent article denouncing the "skeptic" PR machine:
"The Global Warming Denial Lobby
The people out to 'poison the debate on climate change.'"
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2006/05/02/PaidtoDenyGlobalWarming/print.html
-Stephen Berg
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