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Sherman's avatar

Its been a while, here's another option: C6H4 + O2 = CO2 + H2O - - byproducts of combustion. Can you imagine the idiots going after CO2?? Are they planning to push everyone into living like its the 1850's or earlier?

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Dan Fournier's avatar

Merry Christmas my Christian brother. Thanks for sharing all the informative articles with us. And thanks for cross-posting some of mine this years. Looking forward to more gems out of Peter's Newsletter. God bless.

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Peter Halligan's avatar

Merry Christmas to you and youers also.

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DrLatusDextro's avatar

LOL. It's a celestial "carbon" feast. Just consider the ethane lakes and methane rain of Titan, or the abundant carbonaceous chondrites strung across galactic space. And so, let's not forget abiogenic oil. ...https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/41889

But let's never forget that "zero carbon" is a psychopaths errand.

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Peter Halligan's avatar

Just one volcano in Iceland in 2010 - worth keeping an eye on amongst many others.

"The Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland began on March 20, 2010 and was observed to be active for 95 days until June 23, 2010. The volcano was estimated to have produced a maximum of 30,000 tonnes of CO2 everyday it was active, or 0.00003 gigatonnes, according to a research report from The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, now the James Hutton Institute, based in Scotland."

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/iceland-and-philippines-volcanic-eruptions-didnt-produce-more-co2-than-humans/

Better get the UN IPCC to block it off, or fine Iceland a bunch of carbon debits

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151653/lava-and-smoke-blanket-fagradalsfjall

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DrLatusDextro's avatar

PS. Quantitatively speaking the sea-floor spreading centres may vent 1.3 109 cu m of hydrogen and 16 107 cu m methane annually [Welhan et al., 1979].

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Melanie's avatar

Merry Christmas! Thank you for all of your articles. You are one of the people that has kept so many of us going.

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Peter Halligan's avatar

Thank you for reading and a Merry Christmas to you ad yours too!

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Abigail Starke's avatar

Merry Christmas!!!

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Peter Halligan's avatar

Merry Christmas!!!

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K2's avatar

LOLOLOL. Will try to watch my carno intake…. Merry Christmas!

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K2's avatar

…carbon… sigh…

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Peter Halligan's avatar

Haha, I read that as meat intake! Merry Christmas to you and yours - thanks for reading and sending!

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K2's avatar

Me too! LOL

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Honeybee's avatar

The merriest of Christmases and Happy New Year to your family and you, Peter. Thank you for all your hard work during the year on this column!

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Peter Halligan's avatar

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2024 to you and yours too! Thank you for reading my posts! It does not feel like hard work, when it does I will switch to subscriber only and go broke! haha

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

Merry Christmas!

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Peter Halligan's avatar

Merry Christmas!

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