Sulfur Dioxide: The Silver Lining Of The Coal Cloud
Posted on July 6th, 2011 by Tintin
ABOVE: Steve Hayward, in the house that Exxon built
Shorter Steve Hayward, Powerwhite Blob:
More Climate Confusion
- There would be no more global warming — if, in fact, global warming exists at all — if we would just end all controls on the industrial emissions of sulfur compounds.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Leave the giant, faceless, multinational corporations alone! Haven’t you hurt them enough?!
Holy spit!
Frist?
Well, at least the title of his piece is correct. Any time a conservative writes about climate issues, he adds to the confusion. John Stuart Mill was sadly wrong in his assessment.
What I like most about Steve Hayward is that he’s convinced himself he’s some sort of master of vituperative. People who point out that a plateau of higher temperatures does in fact constitute a pattern of warming are throwing tantrums!
Seriously, his argument is that, yes, it’s unbearably hot and will probably stay that way or get worse forever, but since it’s no more unbearably hot right now than it was last year, it’s totally NBD bro?
A walrus who can write stuff. Neat.
Sulfur smells purty.
What could possibly go wrong?
Shorter Jonah Goldberg:
From Mark F’s link: “The segregated neighborhoods and swimming pools of Bradley’s grandparents have yielded to more subtle forms of discrimination.”
Yea, that could never happen today.
Wait. Study says observations match the model despite the results being intuitively backwards? That’s not the sign of a bad model.
Also re: sulphur emissions – d00d has redenigs difficulties. Sulphur emissions are only “partially offsetting” GHG – so that anthropogenic effects are overwhelmed by the combined effect of lows in both major natural periodic cycles. Solar insolation and El Nino/La Nina are both big factors and they are both cyclical. Both were overlapping in their effect on lowering global temps, and yet global temp was flat.
Duh.
Mmm. Eggy and acidic.
This moron lacks even the intelligence of the other moron who was forced to quit blogging in humiliation after bad-mouthing his firm’s clients.
Translation: China is saving us with their soaring emissions from coal use (sulfur dioxide particles reflect solar radiation).
A mistranslation, since the piece clearly states that the ameliorating effect of sulfur dioxide from increased coal use is very short term, while in the longer term it has multiple negative effects including accelerating climate change when the shorter term effects dissipate.
Translation: China is saving us with their soaring emissions from coal use (sulfur dioxide particles reflect solar radiation).
“Translation: I didn’t understand a single thing in what I read.”
Seriously, dude excerpts a whole paragraph, then proceeds to translate what it said into bullshit gibberish that is clearly, CLEARLY, not what it said. I guess he hopes his readers are at least as moronic as he is. Actually, those odds are pretty good.
“Translation: I didn’t understand a single thing in what I read.”
Seriously, dude excerpts a whole paragraph, then proceeds to translate what it said into bullshit gibberish that is clearly, CLEARLY, not what it said.
I don’t know if he understood it or not, but it’s worth noting that unlike John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson and former PLer Paul Mirengoff, who are all amateurs who regurgitate rightwing talking points during their lunch breaks, Steve Hayward has a day job as a paid propagandist. He’s best known for working for anti-environmental lobbying groups.
Did he sleep in that shirt?
As of yesterday, you can also fill your gas tank for free by siphoning from the Yosemite River. Thanks Big Oil!
So the solution for global warming is to poison the atmosphere in known ways.
In which case, I suggest detonating every nuke on the planet. A nukular winter would be a quicker, cheaper, and more permanent solution to global warming. Powertool account pls?
That thing got a Hemi?
As of yesterday, you can also fill your gas tank for free by siphoning from the Yosemite River
The car would not run very well, however, as that was crude oil running through the pipeline. Sadly, our Montana Republicans will still say that the solution to these problems is to free business from all those “onerous and burdensome regulations” and to disband the EPA. FWIW, the area around Billings (where this happened) is the most solidly republican in the state and home to our loathsome US Rep., Denny Rehberg (R-Lazy and Useless Corporate Whore).
Restore your manhood with a Hummer.
<i<A nukular winter would be a quicker, cheaper, and more permanent solution to global warming
You misspelled “nukyular”!
Montana Republicans will still say that the solution to these problems is to free business from all those “onerous and burdensome regulations” and to disband the EPA.
Why do people fall for this shit?
Why do people fall for this shit?
Here in Montana, I blame the legacy of a century of hard rock mining, massive heavy metal contamination of our rivers and streams, from which we get our municipal water supplies.
Dudes, please, as a former Montanan–it’s the YELLOWSTONE River, not the Yosemite. Geez
People are stupid.
Looks like I’m not the only ‘naught among the comments
Where I live has one of the highest airborne SO2 readings in the country because of 1. paper companies 2. coal power 3. natural occuring sulfur bubbled off from underground water supplies. At times it is so strong that the dew has a ph in the very low threes. It condenses on lots of farm implements (motors, gas cans, large metal of any kind) and does it’s acidic work. I don’t recommend it as an anti climate change option.
Here in Montana, I blame the legacy of a century of hard rock mining, massive heavy metal contamination of our rivers and streams, from which we get our municipal water supplies.
Yes–I get this one. Through friends and family, I end up hanging out with people from Idaho’s Silver Valley. A lifetime diet of mine tailings does have a noticeable effect on people.
Converging Emergencies
We can’t say we weren’t warned.
Did anyone catch the NPR story this morning about EPA regs? They did a fair job of explaining that the “costs jobs” and “kills industry” bullshit is bullshit.
A walrus who can write stuff. Neat.
I liked him better when he was just looking for his bukkit.
I think it’s telling that the shorters are becoming less and less wild exaggeration and more declarative statement. Not your fault-how can you parody what is already completely ridiculous?
A walrus who can write stuff. Neat.
looks like you blew a seal!
thank you rodertudis for the links…i really needed to read soming intelligible after the hayward and the jonah before my head got all splodey…
looks like you blew a seal!
I JUST ATE AN ICE CREAM BAR
Conservatives are now in love with sulfur compounds? And they don’t mind global warming? I guess conservatives really preach hellfire and brimstone! As being good for the planet!
Meanwhile, do conservatives really have no nose (like Voldemort)? Supporting sulfur emissions = p.u. to me … but then I am a chemistry prof so what do I know about sulfur compounds 😉
looks like you blew a seal!
I JUST ATE AN ICE CREAM BAR
the.best.joke.evar!
but then I am a chemistry prof so what do I know about sulfur compounds 😉
yeah, lib…keep your *science* and your *facts* out of arguments!!!
but then I am a chemistry prof so what do I know about sulfur compounds 😉
I’m not a professor, but I have lit matches before. I don’t believe I want that shit all up in my breathin’ air.
Supporting sulfur emissions = p.u. to me
To be fair, we’re talking about non-reduced Sulphur here – specifically stratospheric sulfate condensation on ultrafine dust particles bringing them up to a good diameter for light scattering. Teh basic idea.
Clearly the patient will benefit from another bloodletting.
Clearly the patient will benefit from another bloodletting.
yes, doctor…here are your leeches…
Also, kill more cats.
bbkf – did you mention in the previous thred that your hubby works for PBS? I ask because my hubby works in public broadcasting too, as I think you knew.
Also re: Sulphur. The SO2 capture that’s been implemented? Lots of it is FGD scrubbers – so that sulphur is actually being converted into drywall aka gypsumboard aka wallboard. For industrial applications other than utility scale coal-fired electricity generation, that sulphur is being made into fertilizer precursors, acid for other industrial uses and there’s even elemental sulphur being produced as an asphalt additive for increased road wear resistance (especially in colder climates). And that’s just what I know about – there are probably a lot of other uses for captured sulphur.
Not saying that removing sulphur emissions controls would kill teh economy. Teh market for sulphur products has pretty much fallen apart due to oversupply. Just pointing out that doing teh right thing re: spewing poison into teh air (and in the area immediately surrounding your workplace to boot!) isn’t necessarily all cost but may lead to marketable byproducts.
bbkf – did you mention in the previous thred that your hubby works for PBS? I ask because my hubby works in public broadcasting too, as I think you knew.
why yes, he does…and i did not realize that…how neat is that?
not neat that i did not know that…you know what i mean…
there are probably a lot of other uses for captured sulphur.
Like gunpowder. Why does Steve Hayward hate teh Second Amendment?
OT : BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
And mountaintop removal evens out the terrain, so we won’t burn as much gasoline driving up and down hills in what will now be known as the Appalachian Plains. Why do libs hate energy conservation?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA.
So teh only way to attribute the observed fossil record to a small enough number of dinosaurs to cram aboard teh ark is if you accept evolution? IOW, even teh Flood story supports the Theory of Evolution! LULZ. uh, I mean why does teh Bibble hate Creationism?
hey all–so friend of sadlyno and wife of mine jill greenberg just had her new art show in the wall street journal with a very positive review. that’s a good thing. EVEN better is the first comment from a certain “vanderleun”, aware not only of all internet traditions but also of anything my wife does, due to his hatred of her. anyway, anyone who wants to drop by and leave a comment about him and his fine works please feel free.
http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2011/07/05/jill-greenberg-at-clampart/
To be fair, we’re talking about non-reduced Sulphur here – specifically stratospheric sulfate condensation on ultrafine dust particles bringing them up to a good diameter for light scattering – DKW
True dat. But even still, will all the SO2 go straight to the stratosphere or will some of it end up in our lungs? About this, I am not an expert and would have to defer to my brother who’s in the atmospheric science field … kinda, sorta.
Anyhoo, while SO2 don’t smell like H2S, it’s still not the most pleasant compound to smell. We’re talking about (slightly reduced) vitriol here not rotten eggs. And what can you expect from conservatives but vitriol that, when subject to reduction, would smell like rotten eggs?
I have a question about the ark. Was the the ONLY boat in existence at that time?
“I have a question about the ark. Was the the ONLY boat in existence at that time?”
Uh. No?
Yes. Except for the ones in China, India, Japan, and other places. Noah just got all the publicity. Media whore.
Uh. No?
That sucks. I feel like I should buy a boat just in case.
Well Mr. Green – IF that is your REAL NAME – if she is your wife then WHY DO YOU HAVE DIFFERENT SURNAMES?!?!? HUH? Answer me that smartypants liebrul.
Buy a boat? Why not get your three sons and their nameless wives to help you build one?
i could answer you pupienus, but i’d just be Lie ing
also, brul.
I remember teh Internet Traditions thing, but I also have a dodgy memory that he has exhibited some particularly loathsome behavior. I can’t remember the specifics at the moment. Mocking the terminally ill comes to mind, but again, foggy, yo.
If someone could remind me, I’d appreciate it. It would also make a fine retort to his comment at the journal. “vanderleun, eh? That would be the same…”
Was Joan of Arc Noah’s wife?
Steerpike said,
July 6, 2011 at 17:04
Dudes, please, as a former Montanan–it’s the YELLOWSTONE River, not the Yosemite. Geez
I distinctly remember being told it was “Jellystone”.
“Was Joan of Arc Noah’s wife?”
No, silly. She had a covenant with God, therefore, she was the arc of the covenant. Common misunderstanding.
The Yosemite River is very short and has a John Bolton Moustache
This recent subthread reminded me that I haven’t asked Le Donaldee lately how the shocking and devastating Tintin expose is coming along. I am unable to poke him with a sharp stick from my iPhone, alas. Little help anyone?
A flay rod’s gone out askew on the treadle.
“Was Joan of Arc Noah’s wife?”
“No, silly. She had a covenant with God, therefore, she was the arc of the covenant. Common misunderstanding.”
This explains a lot. So, it was her casket that Indiana Jones found, and it was some sort of curse for disturbing her final resting place that made all those Nazis faces melt. This explains a lot. I always wondered how Noah was able to fit all those animals (and his whole family!) in such a tiny boat. Thanks for clearing things up smedley.
So she was the arc of history then.
You rang?
Wow – this “idea” is like curing cancer with a dynamite enema.
China has had slightly lower temperatures than most of the rest of the world due largely to plain old particulates (smog) blocking out the sun, a chemical soup of which SO2 is only one ingredient – & pretty much all the components of which are highly toxic. Their infamous annual “Brown Cloud” also winds up poisoning a lot of folks in neighboring countries like India … hmm … perhaps humans can evolve to incorporate arsenic like those weird germs in that poisonous lake do? Then somehow do the same for mercury, uranium, selenium, thorium, etc.?
Converging Emergencies
Obviously, the only sane answer to these terrifying impending crises is MOAR TAX CUTS.
Scene: Genesis, or a little after, in a lush garden.
-Eve, do you have the tickets?
-Yes, if you mean these stupid fig leaves. I still don’t know why we’re leaving this place. I was just getting used to it. These round red things are really tasty. And they make me a little crazy too.
-Yeah, I kind of like ’em too. Perfect temperature here, no need for clothes and shit. Naked’s good.
-Adam, what does naked mean?
-It means what we looked like before, well, before you know, before we did it.
-Adam, you really are a prude. Where are we going?
-How the hell would I know, Eve? This whole thing came to me in a vision.
-Holy Christ, Adam, I bet you don’t even have a map or directions.
-Eve, where’d you get that “Holy Christ” thing?
-Oh, nowhere. Must have heard one of the animals saying it.
-That’s bullshit….want to tell me the truth?
-Not really, you cant handle the truth.
-Eve, I thought I handled the “other” truth pretty well.
-Yeah, not bad for the first time. Still though, I’m waiting on a repeat.
-Not before we get where we’re going and I can relax.
-Oh Adam, why do we always have to wait?
-Cut it out Eve. Hell, you wouldn’t even be here if I hadn’t given up a rib.
-Oh right. That sacrifice shit again. You know what, Adam, just go by yourself.
-I cant go myself, or the vision wouldn’t be right.
-Okay, how ’bout I have a vision. Hmmmm…….
-Yo! Eve, leave that alone! You’re messing up my fig leaf!
I know you just made that shit up. It was Adam and Steve in the garden which, as everyone knows, is in Missouri.
bbkf – did you mention in the previous thred that your hubby works for PBS? I ask because my hubby works in public broadcasting too, as I think you knew.
why yes, he does…and i did not realize that…how neat is that?
AllOneGuy
Pupienus,
Are you Sandra Tanner?
Ah, there it is.
vanderleun
Okay, who put the grigri on mah link?
“Okay, who put the grigri on mah link?”
Wow. You gotta cut that shit out. Too much LDS will fry your brain.
Montana Republicans will still say that the solution to these problems is to free business from all those “onerous and burdensome regulations” and to disband the EPA.
not just montana republicans, all of the fuckers. Lack of proper regulation is why the us has had three* (four if you count the alaska pipeline thingy) of the biggest oil & gas related disasters in the last five years. I used to think that they were too thick to make the connection, but I think they do, but dont give a shit. The Transocean disaster last year was a ‘learning moment’ as to why we need regulation in oil & gas. If they tried to pull the same shit in Europe, people would be going to jail.
[* not counting the yellowstone one, which is a piddler compared to the others}
No, not even in drag. Its just that as a freethinker, and unlike most religious people, I’ve actually read the Bible, Book of Mormon, Quran, and of course Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, etc. and etc. Not to mention Elaine Pagels, Richard Carrier, and so on and so forth.
The other evening we were sitting in front of the building with our martinis and (gasp! sharing a smoke – we smoke occasionally, always when drinking, and I don’t recommend anyone try to be an occasional smoker) when, through complicated circumstances, we encountered a rare animal in these parts, a Xian missionary man. I explained up front that I had actually read the scriptures but he didn’t pay any attention to that. The Ho pulled the old “Zeus, Odin, Mithras, I just don’t believe in one more god than you don’t believe in but he didn’t get that either. He kept coming back with “but have you heard …” this or that bible verse. “Yes,” I explained again, “I’ve heard ALL of them.”
We informed him that we simply didn’t believe any of the stuff in his magic book was true. He predictably brought up the Josephus “citation” but I suggested he drop that from his repertoire, it having been thoroughly, utterly, completely debunked as a forgery.
He insisted that there were lots of eyewitnesses to the crucifixion and shit so I took another tack, not expecting to get anywhere but i don’t often get to confront theists here in godless Portland. “Who discovered the tomb was empty?” His response was to haul out yet another bible quote about something or other as if I had not heard it before and it would enlighten me. I explained that I had in fact heard that before and asked again who discovered the empty tomb. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
At one point two overweight lesbian acquaintances came by with their dog. “Are these your wives?” he asked. We all LOLed.
Was Joan of Arc Noah’s wife?
Ziggy Piggy FTW.
JESUS WAS A MEXICAN! Mary Magdalene proves it in John 20:
“20:15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener………..”
“She, supposing him to be the gardener………..”
Oh, so Jesus was Peter Sellers.
I really feel sorry for climate scientists. You have to know each of them, right before they click “Submit”, thinks “What are those crazy bastards going to misquote in this one? Why didn’t I go to med school like mom said I should?”
But even still, will all the SO2 go straight to the stratosphere or will some of it end up in our lungs?
Hey, sorry for teh late reply. Only a very very very small portion of it will make it out of teh troposphere. Even with extremely tall stacks and all that thermal rise, we’re talking in the neighbourhood of ten miles straight up. Also only a very very very small portion will end up in the lungs. The folks emitting all that SO2 already have their stacks in place so even if it is only to keep their workers from keeling over, they’ll use the stacks to distribute the emissions.
All that sulphur will end up where it usually ends up – coming back down as acid rain.
anyway, anyone who wants to drop by and leave a comment about him and his fine works please feel free.
margaret weighed in…
Acid rain you say? Never heard of it.
ya know, if the magic underpants, multiple universes/planets, celestial marriage and joseph smith’s charlatanry were not enough to make me call bullshit, this idea certainly would:
JESUS WAS A MEXICAN! Mary Magdalene proves it in John 20:
“20:15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener………..”
this made me lol in the biggest way…
Alternate Shorter: If EVERYTHING smells like a big ol’ fart, I can blame my little problem on the atmosphere.
[NB: I have noted the scholarly discussion of farty smelling sulfur vs. the sulfur the schlub du jour is attempting to discuss. But I am not one to let a few facts stand between me and a fart joke.]
Hogeye Grex said,
July 6, 2011 at 20:51 (kill)
Ah, there it is.
vanderleun
So quaint. A Sadly thread with only thirty-odd comments.
When we were kids we got some “fart rocks” that were like, cooled slag or ash or something and contained little pockets of sulphur gas. They were really crumbly, so you just rubbed them together to releast the sulphur.
They had nothin’ on Liquid Ass, though.
BTW, vs, if you show up – what the heck, is you feeding Dudeskull or just trying to slip in a few winks while he’s out? – I did post a response in the last thread.
nameless wives
Band name of the wk.
Also, too: I’m trying to wrap my head around someone wanting to “blame” their farts on the atmosphere. Does not everyone take pride in their emissions? I find that the older I get, I’m able to wake the cat with some of the pants-splitters I have waiting for escape upon rising in the morn…
Farts done killed the thread, and I’m willing to bet it didn’t do the cat no good neither
Pull my finger.
Mash my nose.
An INGO from the Middle east has been kind enough to take photographs, and collect evidence here in North America, in order to help facilitate peace for North Americans. There has been a request for reciprocation, as the situation there has become critical. We, as a United front, are asking people from all continents to take action, and help bring the ongoing injustice to an end. This is now on the table.
An INGO from the Middle east has been kind enough to take photographs, and collect evidence here in North America, in order to help facilitate peace for North Americans. There has been a request for reciprocation, as the situation there has become critical. We, as a United front, are asking people from all continents to take action, and help bring the ongoing injustice to an end. This is now on the table. Sincerely, the Pacific Army.
Google? Google? I told you so.
So, funding for human trafficking and funding for the nazi’s, has to come to a halt. That’s on the table right now.
I told you so. hahaha Someone’s awake.
So quaint. A Sadly thread with only thirty-odd comments.
There was a time, zrm, when Tres Toros! had more comments then competing??? Sadly, Non! posts.
Back in the day.
~
Then, than, whoze in the Van? and such ass.
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I’m trying to wrap my head around someone wanting to “blame” their farts on the atmosphere. Does not everyone take pride in their emissions?
Once, in high school, I was in attendance at my school’s basketball game. The game was taking place in the other school’s gym, and on that particular night I had an awful case of gas. Now, I was not at that time cool or popular or dashing enough to let one fly without suffering social repercussions, or at least worrying that I would. Unfortunately, I was ensconced in crowded bleachers and anyway didn’t know where the bathrooms were located. It was beginning to hurt. I let one out. It didn’t wake the cat or anyone else; it was an SBD for all time.
It took a minute or so to waft over the crowd. If gas masks were something nearby there truly would’ve been an ecstasy of fumbling. Everyone of course wanted to know who the culprit was, and I of course stayed mum.
Then one of my group of friends to turned to another and said, “That’s gotta be a McGurn fart.”
Then McGurn claimed that it was.
At this point whatever embarrassment I’d been afraid of ceased to be the most pertinent issue. What was mine had been stolen. I had no choice; I called him out.
There’s really not a lot more to the story. McGurn was a well-known petty liar, but usually more like “I did not have sex with that creepy girl!” kind of stuff. His original accuser was incredulous when he took him by the shoulders and said, “You lie about farts?” I doubt anyone who remembers the time he stole a fart even remembers that I’m the one who had it stolen.
Then we did some stupid conga line thing that got us banned from all future games. The vice principal who suspended me . . . her brother-in-law was just in the blogs.
There was a time, zrm, when Tres Toros! had more comments then competing??? Sadly, Non! posts.
Goobie Thread hit 2112 recently. Of course, it took like a year.
@ that’stheoneTHAT’STHEONE:
Don’t bogart that joint, Man!
And besides, they call each other n*gger.
@ that’stheoneTHAT’STHEONE:
Don’t bogart that joint, Man!
More sophisticated Janus Node. Not a real person.
Things we all learn the hard way:
Don’t shop when you’re hungry
Don’t drive when you’re angry
Don’t eat when your depressed
Don’t drink when you’re alone, and
Don’t blog when you’re drunk.
Ever.
ALL. ONE. JANUS NODE.
Don’t blog when you’re drunk.
Well, there goes MY blogging career.
BBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
BLLRT
BLLRT
BLLRT
“Don’t drink when you’re alone”
HERETIC!
McGurn lies again. It was an SBD, fool.
Well, that’s that, then. I’d have to be drunk to blog—kind of like my pub-crawling days asking women to dance. A copious application of social lubricant would be a necessity.
Maybe that’s what’s wrong with some of these wingnut bloggers—they’re blogging sober!
Also, too—does this guy up top remind anybody but me of Bomber Harris?
http://gawker.com/5818761/comment-of-the-day-the-tea-partier-the-school-teacher-and-the-ceo
pretty funneh mangoes to be found on this one
I’m glad I always remain on the boat. Even more so when there’ science-y stuff involved.
By the way, what is that sulpherous stink wafting from the swamp? Usually it’s only rotting mangoes and other decaying vegetation. But this smells like a barrage of McGurn farts.
*gets out of deck chair, takes mint julep inside to the lounge*
*gets out of deck chair, takes mint julep inside to the lounge*
YOU BETTER NOT BE ALONE, FENWICK.
But then…how will I ever drink?
*Sobs*
Er, maybe Mr Haywood should read the comments by Robert Kaufman, the lead researcher.
Ok PBS people, answer a question for an annoyed viewer. What is the fascination with british television? That shit sucks ass. More nova and need to know-less masterpiece theater please. Kthxbai.
Scientists. Pffft. They don’t know that believing stuff real hard makes it fact. Idiots
tsam is right. I believed REAL HARD that this drink was full, and now here it is!
There’s oil in the Yellowstone? Thats the librul’s fault! Mega dittos Rush!
Taking the mint julep.
Your corporate overlords have determined there’s nothing to see here folks, move long now.
My corporate overlords really need to spend some more time maintaining their property.
Re: emissions: people “burp” their babies, by slapping them on the back or something (I am no father), but is it possible to “fart” them?
By the way, what is that sulpherous stink wafting from the swamp?
Depends on the swamp. If we’re talking about TIME’s Swampland, then it’s probably fermenting autocrat jism. They have neither the time nor legal experience to wipe it off their chins.
By the way, what is that sulpherous stink wafting from the swamp?
WARNING: Environmental engineer talking about reduced sulphur compounds.
Swamp gas is primarily methane, which is an odourless gas. What gives swamps their characteristic pungency is a mix of other compounds all of which appear at low concentrations. This exact mix is going to change from swamp to swamp and even from hour to hour since it is the product of ongoing organic processes that are also subjuct to change.
Which compounds those are have been identified and they are often grouped together by us professional enviromental types as “reduced sulphur compounds” or “total reduced sulphur”. These compounds include mercaptans (the active agent in skunk spray) and hydrogen sulphide. Hydrogen sulphide has the interesting characteristic that it has a ceiling on detection concentration. Once the concentration gets high enough, you actually stop smelling it (due to your olfactory nerves being paralyzed). The concentration where this happens varies from person to person, but it typically happens somewhere around a quarter to a half of what is considered to be the lethal dose concentration. So sometimes when the rotting stench disappears, what that means is that you are gonna die.
Uh-oh…………………………..
Shorter D-KW: He who smelt it, dealt it.
Mercaptans are also mixed into domestic natural gas supplies so you can smell when there’s a leak (the actual methane being odorless).
,,,but is it possible to “fart” them?
I’ve only got teh one babbys worth of experience here, but yes it is possible. You bend their teeny little legs up so that they’re sort of crouching/squatting.
Unless your babby is Jonah. Then you tell him that his column is due in an hour and sure enough, FFFFFFFAAAAAARRRRT.
CRA, it may be. If I wanted to, um, poot a baby, I’d prolly lie him on his back, then gently raise his legs up to his chest, then back down, and repeat the motion. Doing the bycicle motion with their little legs might work too.
Also a reduced sulphur compound, and related to teh post, carbonyl sulphide. I’m moar of a process guy than an atmospheric scientist but it’s my understanding that COS is teh vehicle for sulphur transport to the upper atmosphere. And it smells like burnt poo.
From WaPo:
“If the president wants to talk loopholes, we’ll be glad to talk loopholes,” Cantor said at his weekly roundtable with reporters. “We’ve said all along that preferences in the code aren’t something that helps economic growth overall. But listen, we’re not for any proposal that increases taxes, and any type of discussion should be coupled with offsetting tax cuts somewhere else.”
So, to summarize: In “Deficit Reduction” negotiations, Eric Cantor wants to offset any revenue gained through the closing of loopholes with tax cuts elsewhere. That the net effect on the deficit of such a course of action would be zero is of no concern to Cantor, nor The Village. Instead of 1 – 1 = 0, in CantorWorld, 1 – 1 = pony.
If I wanted to, um, poot a baby
Yeah, this is an event that needs encouragement.
I was gonna say…Dudeskull has NO problem with that.
Yayyys! Babby Crew REPRESENT!
Ultra Ninja also farts moar than I can believe. But just because your babby farts a lot, that don’t mean that they don’t have moar farts inside ’em.
Libruls make baby Jonah FAAART
DKW said
I’m moar of a process guy
My mother did say that about you.
Ultra Ninja also farts moar than I can believe. But just because your babby farts a lot, that don’t mean that they don’t have moar farts inside ‘em.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a babby in need of a fresh diaper will soon be in need of another fresh diaper.
Adding to the previous list:
Don’t fart when you’re in an elevator
This actually makes me feel better…sometimes I’m like “How can someone so tiny and cute be so STNKY?”
All you guys!
I have one of the lovely daughter with a bowl of salad on her.
In “Deficit Reduction” negotiations, Eric Cantor wants to offset any revenue gained through the closing of loopholes with tax cuts elsewhere.
Cantor has signed the Norquist Tax Oath & is thus a helpless pawn of Sith Lord Grover – like most DC Republicans.
Fuck the deficit: 1 -1 = A Cushy Corporate Gig The Second We “Step Down To Spend More Time With The Family.”
Now that’s just good fashion sense. What ensemble isn’t improved with a little lettuce on the head?
Cute. 🙂