Mar 13, 2008 6:16:35 AM
- Garage_429
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Alex_ said:... The CO2 'pollutant' insanity is just another bandwagon to squeeze more money out of us. When that goes away a new 'evil' will be named and taxed accordingly....
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Mar 14, 2008 5:09:07 PM
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Cut CO2 Emissions by 4% - Stop Breathing!
by matt @ 8:14 pm. Blogged under Science & Technology, Living and Dying
When we breath we produce Carbon Dioxide (CO2), the more exercise we do the more we produce, so I thought I'd investigate how much CO2 could be saved if everybody in the world breathed half as much for a year. Al Gore has been having the same thoughts too: "We breathe out carbon dioxide, and this in turn causes global warming. I'm going to start holding my breath for two minutes, thirty times per day, in order to combat global warming. I would suggest everyone follow my lead and hold your breath every day. It will prevent the earth from being destroyed." By my own calculations if we all breathed half as frequently we could reduce CO2 emissions by over 1 billion tonnes per year - or around 4% of total global output (25 billion tonnes).
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a waste product made when the body breaks down food for energy (metabolism). The kidneys and lungs regulate the levels of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, and carbonic acid in the blood. Blood carries carbon dioxide to the lungs, where it is breathed out. According to a study by the USDA, an average person's respiration generates approximately 450 litres (roughly 900 grams) of carbon dioxide per day. I calculate this to be 0.3285 tonnes per year per person. There are over 6.5 billion people in the world (6,557,136,735), which, if they breathed half as much (saving 0.16425 tonnes of CO2 per person per year) would save over one billion tonnes of CO2 (1,077,009,708).
If we can slow down our metabolism we will breath less, there are several ways to do this:
1) Exercise less; burn less sugar and eat less food (also indirectly reducing food transport emissions too - but making people a bit fatter and increasing passenger flight emissions). Stop playing badminton and football, start playing dominoes instead.
2) Sleep more; when we sleep breathing slows, the heart rate also slows. Stages 1 and 2 are light sleep in which breathing is slower than when a person is awake. Stages 3 and 4 are called slow-wave (delta) sleep, in which the person's rate of breathing slows down further. During REM sleep, it is normal to have short episodes when breathing stops (apnea) - even better!
3) Meditation; the Chinese may be taking a lot of flack for starting up one coal fired power station each week, but they do at least have the edge on the breathing front. Yogic breathing is slow, infrequent and environmentally friendly.
4) Start a campaign for global non-breathing day - a day which we all spend sleeping in, doing no exercise and meditating. Who needs an economy anyway?
Mar 14, 2008 7:37:30 PM
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Jim48 said:
real science - not politicized science - is based upon skepticism, that is, constantly subjecting current thinking to hard scientific tests. Science is not based upon consensus views.
Jul 8, 2008 10:12:13 AM