What C02 would look like, if it were visible...

[MrScorpio]

http://mic.com/articles/94540/haunting-gif-shows-what-co2-would-look-like-if-you-could-see-it?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social

[Peacetrain]

1. That is amazing

[RKP5637]

2. Excellent visual! So many IMO just don't get what is going on, this

states it exceptionally well!

[MineralMan]

6. It misses another enormous source of CO2.

Breathing. We're all CO2 producers, just by living and breathing. That was conveniently left out of that video.

[RKP5637]

8. Excellent point!!! n/t

[Duppers]

17. I remember arguing with a DUer about this

She claimed that only the rich people were really polluting the planet. Well, the richer people do contribute more CO2 per person via their consumption but we ALL contribute a lot.

And the more people, rich or not, the more CO2. The point was lost on her.

[awake]

3. Lets see what it looks like when a person breaths out

I always wondered how much CO2 do 7 billion people create plus the CO2 from al of the animals we raise. Does any one know the answer?

[MineralMan]

5. A great deal, indeed. We all make CO2 with every breath.

[Takket]

9. This link gives you a rough idea...

The data is old. we are over 7 billion people now as you know.

http://micpohling.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/math-how-much-co2-is-emitted-by-human-on-earth-annually/

[awake]

14. Thank you I have wounded about this for years

great link, so in 2007 humans breath add between 1.362 x 10^9 tonnes/year and 2.168 x 10^9 tonnes/year of CO2 by far not the biggest contributor but still not nothing.

[MineralMan]

4. Interesting that they didn't show exhalations from humans

and other animals in that animated GIF. At least I find it interesting.

[Takket]

7. doesn't show plants taking it in either.

[snooper2]

10. not really, that jet looks cartoonish LOL, ever stand behind a jet engine?

[aValanche]

11. Any combustion creates CO2

In fact, we need CO2 to survive (Don't plants use CO2?) IF CO2 were truly represented here as purple, it would actually be purple and hazy everywhere, as every room you are living in has CO2 in it. How much is enough to kill someone?

So I did a little bit of research because I was curious... I found a website called CO2 Now (http://co2now.org/) that tracks the worlds progress in CO2. They say that our CO2 Levels are at 401 PPM's (Parts per million) which obviously sounds like barely any but apparently they say that 350 ppm is a "safe level." I was looking around a little bit more, and one website said that if you breathed in just 100 ppm, it would poison you. Lastly, they said that 2% of CO2 in the air could kill you; however, we are sitting at like .4% on average.

Anyway, an increase in CO2 in the earth's atmosphere will kill our ecosystem entirely, so we will probably die from other causes is my guess.

But c'mon guys, global warming is fake, you know that.

[Blecht]

13. You post makes no sense

They say that our CO2 Levels are at 401 PPM's (Parts per million) which obviously sounds like barely any but apparently they say that 350 ppm is a "safe level." I was looking around a little bit more, and one website said that if you breathed in just 100 ppm, it would poison you.

350 ppm > 100 ppm

So according to this, we are being poisoned at a safe level.

And here:

Lastly, they said that 2% of CO2 in the air could kill you; however, we are sitting at like .4% on average.

If we are sitting at a 0.4% average, that is 4000 ppm, not 400 ppm.

Either you have misquoted what they have on the sites you visited, or they need some better scientists.

Posts like this do no good at all. They only give climate-change deniers fuel.

[aValanche]

18. Eh...

Like I said, that was just preliminary studying on the matter. I highly doubt that only 100 ppm will kill anybody, however, my statement that our atmosphere has a little more than 401 ppm of CO2. Furthermore, the air we breathe is composed of the following: 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases. This part I know as fact. As for how much could be a lethal dose for a human, I was incorrect in that. 2% would affect a human, but you wouldn't pass out until about ten percent. And by pass out, I assume you eventually die.

So mathematically, if .001% of CO2 = 10 ppm (which it seems fairly close.) to physically kill a human one would assume a range of 100,000 ppm.

[BKH70041]

12. So it looks like LA... or Gotham City... or Prince.

[MindPilot]

15. It looks like the colorized version of Reefer Madness.

If you haven't seen it, the pot smoke is purple.

[Laelth]

16. Nifty. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth