Time Odyssey

Carbon carbon everywhere and nothing left to drink. Go figure. So generally I’m facinated by this whole carbon thing going on. The nature of CO2 is such that the chemical is extreme stable and there are very little things that you can turn it into cheaply. So for example, if there was an easy process for turning CO2 into carbon fibre then we could use carbon capture in order to create a wide array of building materials which would in turn reduce the need for wood products for items such as new home construction.  The current dilemma (one of) has to do with this thing about whether global warming is being caused by human produced CO2 compared to increased energy output from the sun (more on this later). The problem I have with both sets of arguements is that both tend to ignore one of the more serious consequences which is the increase acidification of the oceans and other water bodies. Water absorbs 50x the amount of CO2 as air does – and yet everyone seems to have this big focus on cleaning the air rather than cleaning the water (again – more on this later). There are other aspects of focusing on ocean health that have ramifications for land are air based health but since talking about the ocean is like talking about the national debt (i.e. that dumb blank look you get when you refer to being $9.5 Trillion dollars in debt) most people tend to ignore it under the assumption that “what we don’t see won’t hurt us”. Oh joy.