[Vision2020] US Per Capita Leaking of CO2 into Atmosphere: 19.18 Tons, 2008

[Ted Moffett]

Perhaps you could contract with ExxonMobil or British Petroleum to patch
their oil leaks... Duct tape is remarkably multi-purpose...

I used the word "leaks" to describe human sourced CO2 emissions (primarily
from fossil fuels, not breathing, of course) because a leak is something
that is not supposed to happen, as with oil leaks like the one polluting the
Yellowstone river...

Yet most people it appears do not think of the CO2 coming out of their
tailpipe, or out of a coal fired plant supplying their electricity,  as a
polluting "leak" into the atmosphere, that induces the same degree of alarm
and demands for action to prevent such disasters, as a large oil leak into a
river or the ocean...

Yet global ocean acidification from human CO2 emissions, along with species
compromising climate change, potentially could be more of a threat to life
in the oceans and on land, than oil pollution from leaks, though these oil
spill disasters, such as the Exxon Valdez or the BP gulf well explosion, are
locally very damaging.
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Donovan Arnold <
donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   I'll get some duct tape and stop my CO2 leaking right away!
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On *Sun, 7/3/11, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Vision2020] US Per Capita Leaking of CO2 into Atmosphere: 19.18
> Tons, 2008
> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Cc: "Friends of the Clearwater" <foc at friendsoftheclearwater.org>
> Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 3:11 PM
>
>   US per capita leaking of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2008, 19.18 tons:
>
> http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html
>
> That means you, I, everyone in the US, on average due to our economy
> and lifestyle, dumping 19 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, with annual
> amounts close to this figure, year after year.
>
> If a corporation dumped 19 tons of oil into the Snake River, they'd
> make headlines and be attacked, etc.
>
> Yet despite the science indicating CO2 is inducing potentially
> catastrophic climate change, which includes CO2 polluting the Earth's
> oceans via the process of ocean acidification, most people accept this
> massive dumping into the atmosphere as though it were an open sewer,
> with a curious lack of urgency.
>
> The US Supreme Court has ruled the EPA can regulate CO2 as a pollutant
> ( Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Authority to Regulate Carbon Dioxide:
> WASHINGTON, DC, June 20, 2011 (ENS)
> http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2011/2011-06-20-03.html ), yet
> opposition to both the EPA's authority to enforce such regulations,
> and US Congressional legislation to regulate CO2, is formidable:
>
> Tuesday, June 7, 2011
> Media Matters: Opponents of EPA Climate Action Dominate TV News
> Airwaves -- only scientist interviewed was Patrick Michaels, noted
> liar before Congress:
>
> http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2011/06/media-matters-opponents-of-epa-climate.html
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