Neutral My Carbon

Tom Friedman, did an Op Ed in Nytimes this week and it truly encompasses the concept of collective thinking, not too long ago this concept of going green started to make sense to a very few handful of folks ,  i imagin some sort of tree huger or an Yogi dreaming away on his peace pipe. What is technology? What is the meaning of science? simply put its way of doing things efficiently and at the end of it all coming to terms with one self in getting a satisfaction that you got more out of what you inherited. In our case this palnet, for a while we were out to get the planet until we realized that its not Us against the planet , but its US agianst our demons. When we started out against nature unarmed and helpless, we were threatend by its might and our inability to realize our own potential in the face of Mother Nature. We thought it was US against this seperate entity called nature, its only now we are realizing that we are part of Nature and our survival depends on its survival and we have both our interests vested deeply rooted in each other. Like Thomas Friedman I agree with the idea of flow rather then consume and destroy. What goes in one form does have to comeout in another but technology has a way of gettig us different results. Technology is the answer to this puzzle, again technolgy directly translates into intelligence and that is what is expected out of us , the supreme intelligent creations on earth , if not the universe . With such great power we are also endowed with great responsibiltiy to solve this puzzle in a seemless and sensible approch. We dont know what makes sense until we do it, so lets approch this with all possible options and keep our fingers crossed.

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The climate is changing and that is a fact. Scientists and Greenpeace members keep on screaming that a man is a reason of all that and that human activities lead to greenhouse effect.

It is said that on our planet the increasing quantity of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels – carbon emissions, together with the release of other gases, is leading to an increased greenhouse effect and to global warming. There have been a number of hysterical statements made that we are all going to die soon if we do not move to caves and stop producing any carbon emissions. But is not is a too radical method? How about other reasons of the greenhouse effect?

The thing is that there are many reasons of the global warming and natural ones are not less important than human-caused. For example, one of the most important greenhouse gases is methane. And it is known that most of the methane is released in the atmosphere without any help form man. It is caused by the disintegration of organic materials, different wild animals such as antelopes, termites, etc.

Greenhouse effect is also caused by releases of different toxic substances such as submarine volcanic activity, methane emissions from swamps, and natural emissions of other greenhouse gases. Different activities on the surface of the Sun and changes in the orbit of the earth also influence on the climate.

Most of the dramatic climate changes, such as the Pleistocene epoch that was marked by great fluctuations in temperature that caused the ice ages, with glacial periods followed by warmer interglacial periods, happened without humans taking part in it. At the present time we are all living in the interglacial period that lasts more than 11,5 thousands of years. The fact that the climate has been relatively stable all this time is rather a caprice of the nature than its usual feature.

To sum it up, it is immature and ignorant to state that the only reason of the global warming are human activities that involve carbon emissions, etc. and lead to greenhouse effect. The climate change is a much more complex process. Of course, it does not mean that we have to stop buying carbon offsets and trying to get carbon credits. It is not in our power to stop the process of global warming, but we can try not speed it up.

Carbon Credit is a good way to get some awareness into the society. We recently found another big Glacier got separated from the Original formation. The evidence is growing to carbon excess in the atmosphere. We have two options one to tell ourselves that the train has left the station and nothing can be done at this point but to stop worrying about carbon and live a care free existence. Or two see the glass half full and do something about recovering from the loss and see if a restraint from human side produce any new results. When the cows come home, the question is how we lead ourselves into oblivion or how we found ourselves in a tight corner and recovered from the losses. Carbon credit and buy back per ton is ranging anywhere from $5/ cubic ton to $15/metric ton. The only realistic method to do away with this damage is to put the trees back in place, so they will go back to what they do best that is carbon sequestering. The tress just need initial maintaience and then they are on their own, they are survivors and benefit us in the long run.

Carbon Sequestering is on every ones mind and one way of getting their is through planting more trees, liquifying the co2 well you can tell its not accomplished without any more of resulting carbon, even if its not directly dipping into the conventional energy sources, its carbon dioxide potential by taking the energy from otherwise used for conventional purpose. Carbon Sequestering with trees is a very natural way of trying to get this balance out. Afforestation is not the magic bullet by any analysis but its a logical step in the right direction. Because GHG’s problem we have currently is years of deforestation and burning oil. The best way to restore this is start planting trees. Carbon offset technology has come a long way in terms of the total amount of work needed to produce a unit of energy and the methods of calculating this whole transformation. Carbon Sequestering is this idea that we are trying to correct our mistake of putting out excess carbon out int he atmosphere by taking it back and storing it in forms that are harm less. The three methods most often discussed are the drilling a deep deep hole into the earth and storing liquefied carbon underground, yes you guessed right it take a lot of energy and technology. Second method is to pump the excess carbon into the atmosphere up above the ionsphere and thirdly but good old fashion planting trees.

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