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    Will We Run Out Of Breathable Oxygen If We Produce Too Much Carbon Dioxide?

    By Amy Geppert Posted on 9.23.2008 14 Comments

    Here’s why you might be worried: Burning oil, coal, gas, wood or other organic materials uses molecular oxygen, the O2 we breathe, to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and release energy. This reaction, better known as combustion, also pairs each broken-off, positively charged carbon atom with two negatively charged oxygen atoms, forming carbon dioxide, or CO2.

    9.25.2008 at 11:38am - Comment by Tense

    Tell that to Venus. and not the pretty one that comes out of a clamshell all nakafied.

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    Will We Run Out Of Breathable Oxygen If We Produce Too Much Carbon Dioxide?

    By Amy Geppert Posted on 9.23.2008 14 Comments

    Here’s why you might be worried: Burning oil, coal, gas, wood or other organic materials uses molecular oxygen, the O2 we breathe, to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and release energy. This reaction, better known as combustion, also pairs each broken-off, positively charged carbon atom with two negatively charged oxygen atoms, forming carbon dioxide, or CO2.

    9.25.2008 at 11:38am - Comment by Tense

    Tell that to Venus. and not the pretty one that comes out of a clamshell all nakafied.

  • Science

    Will We Run Out Of Breathable Oxygen If We Produce Too Much Carbon Dioxide?

    By Amy Geppert Posted on 9.23.2008 14 Comments

    Here’s why you might be worried: Burning oil, coal, gas, wood or other organic materials uses molecular oxygen, the O2 we breathe, to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and release energy. This reaction, better known as combustion, also pairs each broken-off, positively charged carbon atom with two negatively charged oxygen atoms, forming carbon dioxide, or CO2.

    9.24.2008 at 02:28pm - Comment by Tense

    Thanks "Mel Gibson" for standing up for the anti-environazis. Wait, what exactly is a enviro-nazi? A. Someone who kills entire populations of people in the name of mother nature? B. Someone who wants to BE mother nature through a facist governmental structure? C. Someone who believes in using military supremacy to dominate anyone in the path of nature? D. All of the above? But, in reality does nature have a political umm...nature? Shouldn't we all be "enviro-nazis"? Shouldn't we all care about the planet? AND BunkerBuster nailed it on the head. We really don't know anything more than what we can see. Even that is speculative, since you can't prove to me that you see what you do. Nor can I. So, knowledge is never political. But, continue to whine whine away.



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