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  1. Can foreigners living in a rented house in Thailand long time contract get a yellow book?
  2. Anyone with COPD and experience with oxygen generators. I’m looking for one there doesn’t burn down if running 24/7 and produce up to 5 litre per minute.
  3. Well Yellowtail, sometimes a short question demands a long answer, it comes here ???? I know my answe goes a litte further than your Why According to scientist at Nasa.org and others. From the moment we stop the high emitting of CO2 into the atmosphere it will take between 300 and 1000 years before it is naturally gone. Yes, I know there are some there claim only between 50 and 300 years. But still a long time. Why will it take so long? Because CO2 disappear from the atmosphere when some minerals naturally react with CO2, and turning carbon dioxide from a gas into a solid. This process is commonly referred to as “carbon mineralization” and it naturally happens very very slowly. Also, the oceans will slowly dissolve some of CO2 besides the 25% it already dissolves every year. But here is a risk factor because the Ocean produces about 60 - 70 % og our oxygen from alger and plankton etc,, and is essential for life. It is not only us humans who consume oxygen, so does the animal world, not to forget that burning fossil fuels consumes oxygen, all forms of burning do. (So, when farmers in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar etc. set the countries on fire, they kill our oxygen and even worse, people dies because smoke ruins their lungs.) Our oxygen level in the atmosphere is normally 21%, but according to Forbes.com it’s slowly decreasing. The critical level for humans is 19.5% Should also mentioned that ice cores from the Greenland ice sheet shows that present CO2 level ppm 420 has not been recorded for the past 800.000 years. However, an ice sample from the Vostok core shows 298.6 ppm and that happens 330.000 years ago. Every year the world's oceans absorb approximately ¼ of all the CO2 we emit. We know it's on the ocean floor, and we know the average pH of the ocean is about 8.1, but as the ocean continues to absorb more and more CO2, the pH drops and the ocean becomes more acidic, and over time it will harm life in the oceans it has already an effect on our beautiful corals. Another problem is Plastic pollution in the Oceans. It’s a danger not only to the animals in the oceans but also to the marine bacteria that are vital for the world's oxygen supply, states ARC, the Australian Research Council, in a news article. A research team has proven that plastic leaches several chemical additives into marine environments, which affect, among other things, the bacteria that produce oxygen. A lot of our CO2 could have been absorbed by rainforests, if it weren't for the fact that money rule the world and deforestation of rainforests, including the Amazon, continues. Other dangers are Our entire ecosystem is so finely tuned, but also fragile when we change the balance. Examples of this are The Gulf Stream and the Monsoon. The gulf stream sends water in two directions, warm water is sent on the surface northwards from the Gulf of Mexico, and this gives North America and Northern Europe a milder climate. Cold water is sent back along the bottom. The Gulf Stream also influences our weather system. According to sciencedaily.com, it has already lost 15% of its strength because the sea temperature in the arctic area has risen, and the Greenland ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. The fresh water no longer sinks all the way to the bottom and thus contributes to destroying the natural pumping function which sends cold water southwards. No one knows how much the Gulf Stream can tolerate losing in strength before it collapses. If that happens it can cause chain reactions that no one has an overview of. We don’t know if it will affect the Monsoon's rain. But we do know India and the whole of Southeast Asia are dependent on the Monsoon. The understanding of the enormous problems that lie ahead does not seem to be present among the politicians, especially not in the countries that pollute the most.
  4. No, it is not. According to Nasa.org will we pass 3 degrees maybe even higher at 2100 and accellerating up. The problem is the CO2 in the atmosphere it will stay there for hundreds of years,
  5. Yes, but sad, If the oceans die we all die no more oxygen. About 25 % off the CO2 we emit are absorb by he oceans. The pH value in the seawater decreases which is why corals die. Gradually as the sea becomes more acidic life in the sea will begin to die out. And no one seems to care. The oxygen level, which was previously 21%, is now close to 20% and is expected to continued decrease.
  6. I consider the nuclear plants built today as much more safe than the one built 30 - 40 years ago. Japan is located in the ring of fire, and one one can discuss whether it is safe to build nuclear power plants in an earthquake zone. But the accident in Japan was used in Germany as a reason to shut down their nuclear power plants, even though Germany itself is not in a major risk earthquake zone, and at a time when Russia has cut off gas to, among others, Germany, one can ask the question: Was it a wise decision by Germany to close their nuclear power plants with zero Co2 emissions and go back to coal, at a time when Europe has already reached the limit of 1.5 degree increase in the average temperature, or was it simple stupidity?
  7. The agenda here is Climate Change
  8. You are right, climate change has been here before, and when it comes it happens over thousands of years, you will barely notice it in a lifetime. This time it happens over 100 years. The Danish artic centre analyses drill samples from the Greenland ice sheet. They state such high concentrations of CO2 as those we have now cannot be measured for the last 800,000 years.
  9. I agree that the unrestrained consumption of fossil fuels, will kill most of the worlds population over the next 100 to 200 years
  10. KhunLA you write about trash in Asian rivers: quote: "Asia has most of the population of the planet, and accepts other continents trash, where is the surprise." quote ended. Do you think Asia buys other countries' garbage and throws it into the rivers? Because that would be a surprise to me
  11. How many dead if we turned off all the fossil fuel plants? My answer is, not as many as if we don't turn off fossil fuels plants.
  12. I agree with you and yes, nuclear is clearly a much safer bet for an alternative energy source.
  13. I am familiar with the import problem. What I'm talking about here is what comes from the rivers. The culture needs to be changed; I hope the Asian countries have started information in the schools. No country should be allowed to export there garbage.
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