Global Warming? are humans to blame?

Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by hansp77, Sep 11, 2006.

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Do you believe

  1. Global Warming is occuring as a direct result of Human Activity.

    106 vote(s)
    51.7%
  2. IF Gloabal Warming is occurring it is as a result of Non-Human or Natural Processes.

    99 vote(s)
    48.3%
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  1. Yobarnacle
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    i stipulated we burn fossil fuels and they produce co2. if you need to look up stipulation, by all means do so
     
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    stipulation is agreed allowed you dont need to prove that, its done move on. lawyers stipulate to facts of opponents case so not to waste time on petty details. get to the meat. stipulation is no contest, move on
     
  3. Boston

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    PS earth has cooled ?

    You can't admit that burning fossil fuels produces CO2 as a byproduct but you want us to believe the earth has cooled?

    Sorry but I'm not sure anyone's going to buy that one either Yobar

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  4. Boston

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    ah very good

    and a request to move on, okie dokie then.
     
  5. Boston

    Boston Previous Member

    can we agree that the world pumps about 90 million barrels of oil out of the ground every day and burns nearly all of it ?

    as well as a yet to be determined amount of coal, just for fun lets call it 200 gigatons
     
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    I have no concept of how much. Im sure its a bunch. stipulate to your figures
     
  7. Boston

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    oh and we should also agree that the terms used in a scientific discussion of a scientific theory should be scientific in nature. The legal process and the scientific method have differences that will eventually deter from our mutual understanding of a scientific topic
     
  8. Boston

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    call it 90 million barrels of oil each day and 200 gigatons of coal each year.
     
  9. Yobarnacle
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    my tugs normally carry 200,000 gals diesel on board and burn 100 gallons per hour, 2,400 gals a day. 7000 hp tug
     
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    we are speaking english. if there is controversey about a term i agree we'll look it up
     
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    american english to be precise..since thats a separate dialect from british english
     
  12. Boston

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    cool and I'm thrilled to see that at least now we are getting back to civil.

    Ok the next part is kinda tricky and requires a tad bit of reading

    from our beloved US energy information dep.
    http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/coal/quarterly/co2_article/co2.html

    If you'd like we can dig into the stoichiometry of the issue but its pretty basic stuff, one of these combines with two of those and and we end up with x amount of stuff. IE x number of mol and so forth but suffice it to say that one pound of carbon combines in the combustion process to produce 3.667 pounds of CO2
     
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    sorry, my internet went south for a few minutes, just got it back.

    defining terms
    postulate = a mutualy agreed assumption, factual or not
    stipulate=agreement to a postulate
    these are technical terms used in science as well as law, very often in math
     
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    ill stipulate to your dept energy figures
     

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    continue
     
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