Friday, August 16, 2013

OUR FRIEND, CO2


 


Political mastermind Watts chides the strongest living Republican for badmouthing the vital natural fertilizer we canot live without:  

'Speaking of clods, Ahnold...Schwarzenegger got off some good gibes to win the crowd over.
Speaking of greenhouse gas deniers:
 “Strap some conservative-thinking people to a tailpipe for an hour and then they will agree it’s a pollutant!”...
Luboš Motl says it’s a gas chamber analogy'

That's putting it mildly--here's his August 15 pitch 

Arnold Schwarzenegger orders gas chambers for some conservatives


...with his thick Austrian accent...

The Terminator's comments at the National Clean Energy Summit were... unfortunate.

According to the Huffington Post, he has proposed a final solution to some disagreements with his opponents that seems to be highly popular among famous Austrian-born expats (let me not mention a former German chancellor by his name), perhaps even more popular than their irrational opposition to peaceful nuclear energy:
Speaking of greenhouse gas deniers: "Strap some conservative-thinking people to a tailpipe for an hour and then they will agree it's a pollutant!"
An interesting but not original (as visitors of a camp in Poland know) technique. But will it achieve what the ex-governor believes that it will achieve? Will the conservative-thinking people agree that CO2 is a pollutant?



Arnold admitted he used to be a big admirer of his countrymate Adolf and has been lying about this relationship for decades.

I don't think so. It seems more likely that they will agree with nothing because they will be dead and dead people can't agree with anything. Instead, Arnold Schwarzenegger will be tried for crimes against humanity – and I guess that the judges would agree that this method to terminate the lives of some conservative-thinking people is a crime against humanity. He will be shown that the Terminator's being human is a film propaganda and his abilities to escape justice indefinitely are movie fantasies.

Moreover, their death won't have anything to do with CO2. Why?...Carbon dioxide, while a greenhouse gas, is not toxic and it is not noxious. It's probably carbon monoxide that will be responsible for the genocide. Too bad that Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't attend an elementary school during George W. Bush's administration because the "No Child Left Behind" program was firmly in place. He didn't have to become a child who was left behind and a walking confirmation of the stereotype that people with his physique are stupid and redundant piles of pork and related proteins – 

 Since the effects of elevated CO2 are not limited to making  the Tree of Woe grow faster or putting a head on Plzeňský Prazdroj, Lubos ought to read this note from the safety specialists at:




CO2 Gas Hazards in the Brewing Industry July 2013

CO2 Gas Hazards in Breweries
The hazards associated with CO2 in the brewing industry are well known, yet people still die needlessly every year in tragic and completely avoidable accidents in breweries. Just last year in Germany, which has a good safety record, two workers died in separate incidents at the same brewery.
In the first incident, the owner was found dead with his head and torso in a beer mixing tank... 10 months later in the same brewery a worker was found dead in a pressure tank ... He was found up to his hips in the container and had been poisoned – probably in seconds – due to the high concentration of CO2...
CO2 is extremely hazardous and can kill in two ways: either by displacing O2, leading to rapid asphyxiation, or as a toxin in its own right. Exposure to as little 0.5% volume CO2 represents a toxic health hazard, while concentrations greater than 10% volume can lead to death.