Irrational Hatred
People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
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( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?
Suggested by Smash Monkey
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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But motor vehicles do emit carbon.
Depending on how much oxygen is present when fuel is burned, engins emit a mixture of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and carbon - the latter is why you end up with a noseful of soot any time you visit London.
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:40, 2 replies)
Depending on how much oxygen is present when fuel is burned, engins emit a mixture of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and carbon - the latter is why you end up with a noseful of soot any time you visit London.
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:40, 2 replies)
Bollocks.
The soot is there because chimney sweeps are just fucking lazy these days. I blame Mary Poppins.
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:43, closed)
The soot is there because chimney sweeps are just fucking lazy these days. I blame Mary Poppins.
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:43, closed)
The small amounts of carbon in car exhaust fall to the ground
As they're heavier than air. They are not spewed out into the atmosphere - and this is what the green lobby are talking about.
Anyway - I appreciate the pedantry :)
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:46, closed)
As they're heavier than air. They are not spewed out into the atmosphere - and this is what the green lobby are talking about.
Anyway - I appreciate the pedantry :)
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:46, closed)
Carbon is certainly a denser material than air, but very small particles of it are light enough to be transported into the atmosphere.
They remain there because they are so light; the downward force of gravity acting on them is weaker than the force generated by the motion of the air.
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:54, closed)
They remain there because they are so light; the downward force of gravity acting on them is weaker than the force generated by the motion of the air.
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:54, closed)
Not always.
Many of the small soot particles become airborne (for some reason, I felt the urge to sound like Samuel L. Jackson and say "Brownian motion - do you know of it, motherfucker?"), although the effects of these particles are ambiguous in relation to climate change. In some cases, they reflect sunlight, producing a local cooling (as seen after the Indonesian forest fires) and in other cases, their colour means they may heat up in sunlight and warm the air around them.
/ more pedantry.
( , Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:54, closed)
Many of the small soot particles become airborne (for some reason, I felt the urge to sound like Samuel L. Jackson and say "Brownian motion - do you know of it, motherfucker?"), although the effects of these particles are ambiguous in relation to climate change. In some cases, they reflect sunlight, producing a local cooling (as seen after the Indonesian forest fires) and in other cases, their colour means they may heat up in sunlight and warm the air around them.
/ more pedantry.
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