Sustainability and CO2
The problem with
sustainability practices in our industry is that many or most think that
sustainability is related to emissions from hydrocarbon combustion .
The existence of the SPE CCUS technical section (Carbon Capture, Utilization
, and Storage) is evidence of this. Utilization as a miscible or near
miscible solvent is the only part of that making any sense, since capture
and storage is not possibly economic or beneficial - see our
CCUS page. CO2 emissions are not related to global
warming and have not been proven to be. Sustainability has absolutely
nothing to do with the misperceptions that increased CO2 is causing climate
change or any real "social issues" whatsoever, except that we have to
convince the public that they have been fooled by fraudulent "climate
scientists" employed by governments. The "Climategate" emails certainly
prove that. A government panel made up of more fraudulent government
employees found otherwise of course.
The main real
environmental issues related to our industry are the production of plastic
and its disposal and dumping in our waters. (Other) toxic waste dumped into
our waters has been killing the oceans about since the Industrial Revolution
began in America. All experienced fishermen are witnesses to the
decline in marine life of almost all species over their lifetime. The
only land animals thriving are those benefitting from agriculture and
agricultural development. Incompetent "climate scientists" note that
temperature increases at dead spots/reefs in the ocean having no oxygen
indicate that increased temperature is the cause, rather than pollution
which has killed the plant life and thus also all animal life, stopping
photosynthesis which is an endothermic reaction! We estimate that pollution
and deforestation have decreased total oxygen production (plant life) on
earth by about 50% since 1950. Published estimates are that up to 80%
of the oxygen produced on earth comes from our waters, and that up to 60%
of that has been lost to water pollution over the last 70 years. That
obviously would cause increased CO2 and decreased O2 in the atmosphere along
with global warming and droughts, partly because the energy that was formerly used by plant life
to produce oxygen is now absorbed and re-radiated as heat, but mostly due to
decreased transpiration and surface evaporative cooling and rainfall in huge
amounts. Urban
development certainly generates heat (search for urban heat island). A simple comparison of the
temperature at the middle of an asphalt parking lot in the summer with that
at the floor of an adjacent forest certainly supports that argument, and is
mostly due to lost transpiration and surface cooling (lost cooling due to
reduced photosynthesis contributes only a few percent of the total loss).
The solution to our
real environmental and sustainability problems is that
we must ban all ocean dumping and require the recycling of all plastic (and
everything else). If cleanup and trash recycling were made a priority there would
be no excuse for any unemployment. Loss of plant life due to
development and deforestation must be restricted and countered with
replanting. And we should put a bounty on trash collected at sea to
make it profitable rather than tax or regulate CO2 emissions! The
latter can only cause severe economic decline and cannot possibly have any
positive effect, except for those attempting or accomplishing confiscation
of private property through those taxes, or for those profiting from
regulation. Increased atmospheric CO2 concentration is highly
beneficial to all plant and animal life and to regulation of the temperature
of our planet, since it greatly increases the rates of plant (food) growth
and oxygen production and CO2 consumption and the natural cooling resulting from endothermic conversion
of solar energy and CO2 to carbohydrates (food) and oxygen by photosynthesis.
The destruction of plant life by development and deforestation and the
resulting lost transpiration (water evaporation by plants) are the real causes of the global
warming and severe droughts that we are experiencing, primarily in the
northern hemisphere. Plants are natural evaporative coolers producing huge
amounts of surface cooling and rainfall while providing for all animal life
on earth.
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