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Actually Co2 can cause health problems chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/documents/MountStHelens.htmBut of course most of us most of the time wonlt experience levels like that. This shows what the composition of the earth’s atmosphere is. eoearth.org/article/Atmospheric_composition C02 is not in the atmosphere in very high concentrates though those concentrations have increased alot recently.
But really I do think it wouldn;t be accurate imo to call C02 a pollutant. It is a green house gas however. And I would post more but I am falling asleep so that is all for now…
But really I do think it wouldn;t be accurate imo to call C02 a pollutant. It is a green house gas however. And I would post more but I am falling asleep so that is all for now…
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The likelihood of polar bears becoming extinct in 40 years is about that of us getting wiped out by an asteroid … or the sea level rising 20 feet. Polar bear populations have been increasing over the last few decades and there is no serious reason to believe that will change so drastically in the next few decades that the bears will disappear. It’s hard to believe any scientist really believes polar bears will die out.
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ThomasB36
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear
The global polar bear population, estimated to be 22,000-25,000 bears, is relatively stable.[98] However, in 2006, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) upgraded the polar bear from a species of Least Concern to a vulnerable species.[99] It cited a “suspected population reduction of >30% within three generations (45 years)”, due primarily to global warming.[1] Other risks to the polar bear include pollution in the form of toxic contaminants, conflicts with shipping, stresses from recreational polar-bear watching, and oil and gas exploration and development.[1] The IUCN also cited a “potential risk of over-harvest” through legal and illegal hunting.[1]
On May 14, 2008 the U.S. Department of the Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, citing the melting of Arctic sea ice as the primary threat to the polar bear.[117] However, the department immediately issued a statement that the listing could not be used to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, saying, “That would be a wholly inappropriate use of the Endangered Species Act. ESA is not the right tool to set U. S. climate policy.”[118] However, some policy analysts believe that despite the government’s stance, the Endangered Species Act can be used to restrict the issuing of federal permits for projects that would threaten the polar bear by increasing greenhouse gas emissions.[117] Environmental groups have pledged to go to court to have the Endangered Species Act interpreted in such a way.[117]
The U.S. Geological Survey predicts two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050, based on moderate projections for the shrinking of summer sea ice caused by global warming.[46] The bears would disappear from Europe, Asia, and Alaska, and be depleted from the Arctic archipelago of Canada and areas off the northern Greenland coast. By 2080, they would disappear from Greenland entirely and from the northern Canadian coast, leaving only dwindling numbers in the interior Arctic archipelago.[46]
Actually, it says 2/3 of population.
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From this link
catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=19830
The human person, the archbishop said, should be at “the center of environmental concerns” in the affairs of nations, corporations and individuals, while there is a simultaneous promotion of the urgency of “human responsibility for the Earth.”
“As the essential symbiosis of life on the planet becomes plain,” he said, “there is already a growing acknowledgement that good environmental policies are by extension good people policies, too.”
He pointed to the critical importance of water in the effort of building sustainable development and the dire predictions for the global community in access to that resource.
“This is already a humanitarian and environmental crisis, as well as a question of social justice, Archbishop Migliore said, noting that 34,000 people die every day due to a lack of clean water and that 1.5 billion people lack such access today, a figure that may double by 2025.
“Within 20 years, the reserves of water per person will be a third of what they were in 1950 and, by 2025, a third of the world’s nations will have catastrophically low levels of water,” he said. “Encouraging change in consumption patterns and in increasing access to water supply and sanitation is also a matter of developmental common sense, since both yield very high rates of return, making them extremely attractive from a social investment standpoint.”
catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=19830
The human person, the archbishop said, should be at “the center of environmental concerns” in the affairs of nations, corporations and individuals, while there is a simultaneous promotion of the urgency of “human responsibility for the Earth.”
“As the essential symbiosis of life on the planet becomes plain,” he said, “there is already a growing acknowledgement that good environmental policies are by extension good people policies, too.”
He pointed to the critical importance of water in the effort of building sustainable development and the dire predictions for the global community in access to that resource.
“This is already a humanitarian and environmental crisis, as well as a question of social justice, Archbishop Migliore said, noting that 34,000 people die every day due to a lack of clean water and that 1.5 billion people lack such access today, a figure that may double by 2025.
“Within 20 years, the reserves of water per person will be a third of what they were in 1950 and, by 2025, a third of the world’s nations will have catastrophically low levels of water,” he said. “Encouraging change in consumption patterns and in increasing access to water supply and sanitation is also a matter of developmental common sense, since both yield very high rates of return, making them extremely attractive from a social investment standpoint.”
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ChristIsLord
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99.9% of all animals ever to walk the earth are currently extinct.
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mpi
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All of these projections are based on temperature projections. This is agenda-driven science being published by leftards and envirowackos.
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Valke2
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I am looking forward to the green revolution. I think we are going to make giant strides in both energy efficiency and clean energy inovations. This will be the current generations’ “space race.”
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mpi
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If man is destroying the environment, then why has the percentage of deaths due to environmental issues (radiation exposure, extreme cold, extreme heat, dirty drinking water, etc.) dropped so dramatically over the past few decades and centuries?
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ThomasB36
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
I would post a section of the article but people keep cutting and pasting part of what I write.
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ThomasB36
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“The first thing God gave Adam after giving him a name was a Job. That Job was to care for His creation”
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Valke2
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A new poll among 3,146 earth scientists found that 90 percent believe global warming is real, while 82 percent agree that human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.
news.mongabay.com/2009/0122-climate.html
The survey, conducted among researchers listed in the American Geological Institute’s Directory of Geoscience Departments*, “found that climatologists who are active in research showed the strongest consensus on the causes of global warming, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role”.
news.mongabay.com/2009/0122-climate.html
The survey, conducted among researchers listed in the American Geological Institute’s Directory of Geoscience Departments*, “found that climatologists who are active in research showed the strongest consensus on the causes of global warming, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role”.
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mpi
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historylearningsite.co.uk/diseases_industrial_revolution.htmNot from what I have read. If you give me some unbiased information I would appreciate it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate
First link points out up to a third of death in the UK between 1800-50 were due to unsanitary living.
Second link points out current causes of death.
how is that?
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ThomasB36
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Good information.
TB affected those who had been poorly fed and were under nourished. It also affected those who lived in dirty and damp homes. TB can be spread by a person breathing in the exhaled sputum of someone who already has the disease. In the overcrowded tenements of the industrial cities, one infected person could spread the disease very easily.
Though accurate records are difficult to acquire, it is believed that TB killed one-third of all those who died in Britain between 1800 and 1850.
Even a great reformer like Edwin Chadwick was convinced that disease was carried in the atmosphere which had been poisoned by foul smells. In 1849, he persuaded the authorities in London to clean up the sewers in their districts. This, so Chadwick believed, would get rid of the bad smells and therefore disease. Each week an estimated 6000 cubic yards of filth was swept into the River Thames – London’s main source of water. Cholera was given a chance to spread and 30,000 Londoners got the disease in 1849 with 15,000 dying as a result.
In 2005 the top two cause of death were cardiovascular disease (29.34%) and infectious and parasitic dieases (19.12).
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mpi
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So then we agree! Man has done a great job over the past few centuries making the environment more liveable. The environment today is better than it has ever been before.Good information.
TB affected those who had been poorly fed and were under nourished. It also affected those who lived in dirty and damp homes. TB can be spread by a person breathing in the exhaled sputum of someone who already has the disease. In the overcrowded tenements of the industrial cities, one infected person could spread the disease very easily.
Though accurate records are difficult to acquire, it is believed that TB killed one-third of all those who died in Britain between 1800 and 1850.
Even a great reformer like Edwin Chadwick was convinced that disease was carried in the atmosphere which had been poisoned by foul smells. In 1849, he persuaded the authorities in London to clean up the sewers in their districts. This, so Chadwick believed, would get rid of the bad smells and therefore disease. Each week an estimated 6000 cubic yards of filth was swept into the River Thames – London’s main source of water. Cholera was given a chance to spread and 30,000 Londoners got the disease in 1849 with 15,000 dying as a result.
In 2005 the top two cause of death were cardiovascular disease (29.34%) and infectious and parasitic dieases (19.12).
I was supposed to rain today. It didn’t.
The scientists, with all of these fantastic models that predict doom for the polar bears in 40 years can’t accurately predict rain in a three day forecast.
Use your brain people. These forecasts are not reliable.
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