From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: CO2 Seems To Be Highly Overrated
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:49:15 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:40:27 -0700, Alan wrote:
> On 2024-10-23 15:17, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:49:31 -0700, Alan wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-10-22 15:36, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:36:14 -0500, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The unaltered (raw) "maximum" temperature data (for July and August) from
>>>>> the U.S. historical climatological network (USHCN) still shows our climate
>>>>> was warmer in the past. CO2 seems to be highly overrated.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> CO2 is a proxy for human industrial activity. Normally it runs
>>>> about 0.04% of sea-level urth-normal.
>>>>
>>>> It is ALSO toxic to mammals at anything over 30%:
>>>>
>>>> https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5380556/
>>>>
>>>> Frankly speaking, it's a "kinder, gentler" way to go than, say, cyanide
>>>> (or, for that matter most of that lethal injection shit):
>>>> you go to sleep and then your heart stops.
>>> You know nothing about it.
>>>
>>> CO2 is a HORRIBLE way to go.
>>>
>>> That pain you feel in your body when you hold your breath?
>>>
>>> That's caused by the build up of CO2.
>>>
>>> If you want something kinder and gentler to kill someone by what they
>>> breathe...
>>>
>>> ...use pure nitrogen.
>>
>> No. That's st8 up asphyxia.
>
> Yes. WHICH DOES NOT HURT.
>
> There's lots of video online of what happens to pilots (and others) who
> take the hypobaric chamber test.
>
> The people who take that test don't even realize that they're running
> out of oxygen. They just get dopey and pass out.
>
>> CO2 (*not* CO) causes unconsciousness *B4* the asphyxia kicks in.
>
> It causes PAIN you idiot.
>
> Your body reacts to high levels of CO2 with PAIN; the panicked need to
> BREATHE.
>
>>
>> Anyways, I'm no such an expert at dyin'. Are you?
> I'm obviously far more expert than you.
An X-spurt? Wazzat?
Dhu
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