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Post by iagosan on Dec 14, 2023 8:45:25 GMT
Follow the science ! BREATHING is bad for the environment LOL
WE are the carbon they want to reduce, Er yes,….. And you have only just realised this?
(But, but, I thought that was a “conspiracy theory”)
Now scientists say BREATHING is bad for the environment: Gases we exhale contribute to 0.1% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions
Two greenhouse gases - both more potent than CO2 - are in human breath
One is methane which is famously also emitted from livestock such as cows
JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE
19:00, 13 December 2023
Whether it's eating less meat or cycling instead of driving, humans can do many things to help prevent climate change.
Unfortunately, breathing less isn't one of them.
That might be a problem, as a new study claims the gases in air exhaled from human lungs is fueling global warming.
Methane and nitrous oxide in the air we exhale makes up to 0.1 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say.
And that's not even accounting for the gas we release from burps and farts, or emissions that come from our skin without us noticing.
The new study was led by Dr Nicholas Cowan, an atmospheric physicist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh.
'Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming,' Dr Cowan and colleagues say.
'We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible.'
As most of us remember from science classes at school, humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
Etc, etc……
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12859057/Now-scientists-say-BREATHING-bad-environment-Gases-exhale-contribute-0-1-UKs-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html
or
archive.is/xs3ox
p.s. Has anyone ever met a Malthusian who led by example and nobly forfeited his life “For the Greater Good of Population Reduction” ?
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Post by tth1 on Dec 14, 2023 14:50:26 GMT
I don't rely on the Daily Mail as a reliable source for information, let alone scientific information. Of course, human beings breathe out carbon dioxide. Many, many years ago I worked on a hospital ward. Every night flowers were removed from the ward. When I aksed why I was told because plants give off carbon dioxde at night. My reply was what do you think the patients and staff are breathing out? That comment was not appreciated and the policy didn't change.
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Post by homeschooldad on Dec 14, 2023 23:55:36 GMT
Well, there you go then, everybody just stop breathing, or failing that, try to breathe less. Mother Earth is calling out to you.
Seriously, though, the next step would be to call for population reduction. Fewer breathers, fresher air. You can see where this is going.
And don't eat things that give you gas. Ask any cow.
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Post by tth1 on Dec 15, 2023 13:47:59 GMT
Well, there you go then, everybody just stop breathing, or failing that, try to breathe less. Mother Earth is calling out to you. Seriously, though, the next step would be to call for population reduction. Fewer breathers, fresher air. You can see where this is going. And don't eat things that give you gas. Ask any cow. I often ask people to stop breathing in my car. When I'm alone in it the inside of the windscreen never fogs up. When I have passengers it always fogs up. So far no one has acceded to my request. |
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Post by blackforest on Dec 15, 2023 14:36:23 GMT
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Post by iagosan on Dec 18, 2023 11:57:21 GMT
I don't rely on the Daily Mail as a reliable source for information, let alone scientific information. Of course, human beings breathe out carbon dioxide. Many, many years ago I worked on a hospital ward. Every night flowers were removed from the ward. When I aksed why I was told because plants give off carbon dioxde at night. My reply was what do you think the patients and staff are breathing out? That comment was not appreciated and the policy didn't change.
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295157
or
archive.is/5xlAp
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Post by blackforest on Dec 18, 2023 16:44:37 GMT
To repeat, the authors conclude:
"While emissions of CH4 and N2O account for only 0.05% and 0.1% of the total emissions in the UK national greenhouse gas inventories, respectively, we would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible."
These aren't big words. The Daily Mail blew it up, (as they normally do), not the climate scientists. The latter just sought to answer a question and didn't find anything significant enough to sound the alarm over people breathing.
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Post by tth1 on Dec 18, 2023 17:16:25 GMT
Perhaps if we took it gently, and decided to stop breathing for just one day a week might be a good start?
Ok, well if you never post again we'll know you've done this. |
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Post by tth1 on Dec 18, 2023 17:18:49 GMT
I don't rely on the Daily Mail as a reliable source for information, let alone scientific information. Of course, human beings breathe out carbon dioxide. Many, many years ago I worked on a hospital ward. Every night flowers were removed from the ward. When I aksed why I was told because plants give off carbon dioxde at night. My reply was what do you think the patients and staff are breathing out? That comment was not appreciated and the policy didn't change.
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295157
Thank you for that link. I've downloaded the article and I shall read it. |
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Post by homeschooldad on Dec 18, 2023 18:18:42 GMT
To repeat, the authors conclude: "While emissions of CH4 and N2O account for only 0.05% and 0.1% of the total emissions in the UK national greenhouse gas inventories, respectively, we would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible." These aren't big words. The Daily Mail blew it up, (as they normally do), not the climate scientists. The latter just sought to answer a question and didn't find anything significant enough to sound the alarm over people breathing. The DM often talks just to hear its head rattle. And it's shameful how they go hunting for stars past their prime and take huge numbers of pictures of them doing quotidian things in often-sloppy mufti. Bridget Fonda had the misfortune to come down with physical ailments and had to devote herself to the care of her family (something to which I can certainly relate), and she's gained quite a bit of weight. Plastering pictures of her all over their website wasn't necessary. Thankfully she probably gets enough in royalties from her various movies, to be able to live comfortably without working anymore. |
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Post by iagosan on Dec 19, 2023 12:35:19 GMT
Perhaps if we took it gently, and decided to stop breathing for just one day a week might be a good start?
Ok, well if you never post again we'll know you've done this. |
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 19, 2023 19:17:10 GMT
'The DM often talks just to hear its head rattle.' The Daily Mail summed up in one relatively short sentence. They are indeed noisemakers. The try and quote stuff to appear intelligent but it's doubtful at times if the author of an article quoting such stuff has read the source material in depth. Quite often it contradicts what they are saying in the article or at best partially agrees with it.
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Post by tth1 on Dec 20, 2023 15:30:44 GMT
My mother used to insist I buy her the Daily Mail every Saturday. She said she preferred their TV guide. I couldn't get her to understand there were a lot of TV guides available and the majority, if not all, were cheaper than the Saturday edition of the Mail. She wouldn't read the newspaper but insisted I take it home with me. At first I did use to read it. However, it used to make me so annoyed that I simply brought it home and put it in our paper recycling bin. That was much better for my blood pressure.
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Post by theguvnor on Dec 20, 2023 15:42:52 GMT
Best place for it. That's all most of its articles seem designed to do, start contentious rows.
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Post by tisbearself on Dec 22, 2023 8:46:45 GMT
IDK...one time there was a murder at a bar 2 blocks from my house in Maryland, USA where my husband and I used to go from time to time, and I ended up having to read the Daily Fail to find out exactly what happened because the local newspaper of record in our area refused to report on the murder beyond literally one paragraph that basically said bar was closed for liquor license review because someone killed someone else there. It is likely that the owner had connections to keep the story minimized in the local paper and/ or that the paper did not want to report because of a racial component to the story. Meanwhile, across the ocean, Daily Mail ran a full page detailed story on this business that happened in our little town in USA, complete with details and photos of everybody involved before violence broke out.
Then at some point we had the Ariel Castro kidnapping situation in my old hometown and Daily Fail just happened to have a connection to his son, so they ran all kinds of exclusive stuff no US paper could get.
I never thought I'd have to read a paper from across the pond to find out about stuff happening in my own neighborhood but that's "journalism" for ya.
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