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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HPilot who wrote (19300)	12/30/2007 10:11:02 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36923

Hugh, people breathe because they get too much CO2 in their bloodstream. If they stop breathing, CO2 goes up and oxygen goes down in their bloodstream. If you are an anaesthetist, it is quite important to keep the CO2 levels in blood from getting too high. The way to do that is keep air flow to the lungs. Or, they can pump the blood out and get the CO2 out otherwise. Rumour has it that Wharfie was an anaesthetist. So he has developed an antipathy to CO2 after a lifetime of suffocating people, some of them dying. CO2 is bad. It's just human psychology. Like if children vomit when eating something, they'll avoid it in future. Our son did that with an Easter egg when he was little. I forget the cause, but it wasn't the Easter egg. Same with V8 tomato juice during chemotherapy, and mussels = he doesn't like those now. Wharfie dislikes CO2. He should get a job providing respiration to plants who are sick, short of water etc. He'd soon find that more CO2 is a good thing. When a sick plant comes in for treatment, the first thing to do would be to put it in a bed in an emergency room and give it more CO2. Mqurice

To: HPilot who wrote (19300)	1/8/2008 8:10:07 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 36923

Step 1...Carbon is not a metal, idiot. Carbon group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The carbon group is group 14 (IUPAC style) in the periodic table. Once also known as the tetrels (from Latin tetra, four), stemming from the earlier naming convention of this group as Group IVB. Each of the elements in this group has 4 electrons in its outer energy level. The last orbital of all these elements is the p2 orbital. In most cases, the elements share their electrons. The tendency to lose electrons increases as the size of the atom increases, as it does with increasing atomic number. Carbon alone forms negative ions, in the form of carbide (C4-) ions. Silicon and germanium, both metalloids, each can form +4 ions. Tin and lead both are metals while ununquadium is a synthetic shortlived radioactive metal. The group consists of carbon (C), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), tin (Sn), lead (Pb), and ununquadium (Uuq). en.wikipedia.org