Food waste in general shouldn't be adding extra CO2 in the environment, unless they are extrinsically adding tons of CO2 to the system from e.g. synthetic chemicals derived from oil.
First of all, you *do* use synthetic chemicals derived from oil in agriculture -- well, more accurately, from natural gas (ammonia). Second, you *also* use extra amounts of oil-derived fuel to grow this waste food. And third, of course, there's also the issue of methane being much more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, so even if you're neutral in terms of (physical) CO2 consumed and produced, you're still not necessarily neutral in terms of CO2-equivalent GHG emissions.
and water is a much stronger greenhouse gas than methane.
The antihumanists should just unite behind water, pretty sure people are so dumb now they can be convinced to stop drinking and get all this over with quickly.
Are you aware it is the greenhouse effect that is responsible for clear days being colder than cloudy days during winter?
I'm not the one with a problem with cause and effect, that would be people who think mankind somehow caused the earth to get warmer since the last ice age, while offering no plausible explanation why the ice age ended.
I don't just *believe* that the Earth is getting warmer -- I *know* it, i.e., the belief is true and justified. We have extensive measurements of this.
dude we can barely even track the temperature of a room accurately today, what gives you so much confidence in temperature estimates of the entire planet 100 years ago pretty much before we'd even been to the south pole.
dude we can barely even track the temperature of a room accurately today
Fortunately measuring the average temperature on larger scale is easier than measuring instantaneous temperature at a smaller scale - the errors decrease inversely proportionally with the square root of the number of measurements.
Current, i.e. now, an instantaneous measurement, which you record and use to construct time series data of how the temperature changes over time
Average: i.e. over the entire atmosphere being counted, from ground level to the upper atmosphere.
That you require to say with such confidence that "the entire atmosphere is getting warmer", and you said is easier than measuring the temperature of my room.
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Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1, Insightful)
Food waste in general shouldn't be adding extra CO2 in the environment, unless they are extrinsically adding tons of CO2 to the system from e.g. synthetic chemicals derived from oil.
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Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1)
and water is a much stronger greenhouse gas than methane.
The antihumanists should just unite behind water, pretty sure people are so dumb now they can be convinced to stop drinking and get all this over with quickly.
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You are aware of an acceleration factor coming from warmer climate and higher water vapor content in the atmosphere?
And I hope you are aware that you have a problem with cause and effect.
Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1)
Are you aware it is the greenhouse effect that is responsible for clear days being colder than cloudy days during winter?
I'm not the one with a problem with cause and effect, that would be people who think mankind somehow caused the earth to get warmer since the last ice age, while offering no plausible explanation why the ice age ended.
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Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1)
so you dont believe the earth is getting warmer.
fair enough, I dont have anything to convince you its warmer now than 50 years ago, let alone more than that.
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Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:1)
dude we can barely even track the temperature of a room accurately today, what gives you so much confidence in temperature estimates of the entire planet 100 years ago pretty much before we'd even been to the south pole.
Re: Seems like a stupid argument to me. (Score:2)
dude we can barely even track the temperature of a room accurately today
Fortunately measuring the average temperature on larger scale is easier than measuring instantaneous temperature at a smaller scale - the errors decrease inversely proportionally with the square root of the number of measurements.
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->ortunately measuring the average temperature on larger scale is easier
Temperature of my room is currently 21 degrees Celsius, what the current average temperature of the planet right now?
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Current, i.e. now, an instantaneous measurement, which you record and use to construct time series data of how the temperature changes over time
Average: i.e. over the entire atmosphere being counted, from ground level to the upper atmosphere.
That you require to say with such confidence that "the entire atmosphere is getting warmer", and you said is easier than measuring the temperature of my room.