DaBadger
05 February 2014 7:21am
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But this CO2 gas is nothing more than a “trace” gas
CO2 .amounts to .039% of the atmosphere.
The atmosphere as you know is composed of gases. The most abundant of these are nitrogen and oxygen. These account for 99% of the atmosphere.
If you could separate all the gases that comprise the atmosphere and fit them into 1billion glass jars (1,000,000,000)
Oxygen would take up 209,500,000 jars
Nitrogen would take up 780,800,000 jars
Carbon dioxide which is .039% of the atmosphere, would take up 390,000 jars.
Not much compared to the big 2 is it? You might be thinking, how can something that is just a trace gas have the potential to be so harmful.
Consider this. Ozone which is .000004% of the atmosphere, would take up 40 jars out of a billion.
Yet, if all developed nations had not taken action by signing and taking action to address the depletion of this "trace" gas in the 1987 Montreal Protocol, by 2065, we would not have been able to go out into the sunshine. We would have become a species of mole men.
This is an example of how it is possible to actually do something about an environmental problem. One wonders if we had discovered this growing ozone hole in the age of the internet would the ignorant voices that permeate the ether have prevented us from addressing the issue.
Fifty years from now would we have been heading down into our burrows never to feel the warmth of the sun upon our faces again?
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/05/coalitions-direct-action-clim...