Fun and Games with CO2

Recently I saw a TV report about some bureaucrats in Washington who were considering requiring farmers to change the diets of cows to reduce their methane output. That is truly a revolutionary idea and worthy of some kind of bureaucrat of the year award. It caused me to think a little more about his whole gas problem in Washington. I just opened a diet coke and realized that I had just released a bunch of CO2 into the atmosphere that had been in the can under high pressure. After drinking a few sips, I also released some more when it caused me to burp. By the way, excuse me. It was at that moment that I realized that the Obama administration probably needs to institute a gas recovery system for all people who consume carbonated beverages. There are billions of Buds and Corona Lights being popped as we speak all over the world. Merciful heavens, think of the massive impact to global warming. We should be required to wear some kind of mask to recover these gases before they escape into the atmosphere. Every can and bottle of soda, beer, champagne or other carbonated beverage should only be opened inside a gas recovery box before it is consumed. I wonder why this oversight has been allowed to continue so long.

Is there a difference in the quality of CO2 that beverage manufacturers use? Are they filtering their CO2 to allow only the non-polluting variants of the gas into their products? Is the CO2 that comes from the stacks of power plants a dirty contaminated kind of CO2? Why is that gas so much worse than all the other sources of CO2 like the beverage kind? I am sooooo confused. Surely the government knows best and have identified a really nasty type of CO2 and that is why they are picking on the power industry to remove their CO2. I bet you can help me to understand this apparent contradiction. Do you think it is because CO2 comes in different forms or is there some other motive here? Hmmm, I wonder.

Let’s see now, we’re told that man made CO2 is causing the entire planet to heat up, the poles to melt, the seas to rise, and soon New York and all its inhabitants will be under water. While CO2 represents only 3/10ths of one percent of the atmosphere and water vapor, which is also a green house gas, can be as much as 4% of the atmosphere, you’d think the government would at least be a little concerned about water vapor and the other gases in the atmosphere, However, factory generated CO2 seems to be unique in some way and the steam from the stacks apparently poses no problem, therefore no selling of steam credits to other businesses. I wonder whether money has anything to do with this. Now I’ll have to ponder that some more.