All about Air

Here are some facts I found interesting about the air God made - for what it's worth to ya....

Dry air is 78% Nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases mainly carbon dioxide and argon

17% of the air we exhale is still oxygen

Carbon Dioxide is not totally harmful to our planet, God designed it to be essential. Plants need CO2 for photosynthesis. We need the plants to do this to replenish the oxygen in the air. There are more humans alive today than in all previous generations on earth combined. So, us living creatures are exhaling a lot of CO2.

The greenhouse effect is a good thing. God designed the greenhouse effect to regulate earth's temperature. You see, infared light is reflected back into space. The greenhouse gases trap some of this infared heat to regulate the earth's temperature. Without the gases, earth would be too cold for life.

If you took the temperatures from all over the globe and averaged them over the past 100 years, the variance would be +/- 0. This means the average temperature change has been less than a degree.

The air in the US is much much cleaner than it was 25 years ago due to unleaded fuels, scrubbers in smoke stacks, catalytic converters (converts carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide) installed in automobiles. The main air pollutants which have not been significantly reduced over the last 25 years are nitrogen oxides and sulfer oxides. 50% of these 2 pollutants come from a natural source- volcanic eruptions.

While oxygen (O) is essential to life, so is Ozone (O3). However, ozone is harmful for humans to breath so God placed the ozone layer far above the ground where humans would be unable to breathe. Ground level ozone is a pollutant. However Ozone is essential to human survival. It filters the harmful UV rays from the sun. As light reacts with Ozone, an amazing thing happens - the (O3) molecules are busted up, resulting in MORE Oxygen. This is how fantastic air is. God designed all the gases to work together and compliment each other.

Of there were a larger % of oxygen in the air - our lifespans would be much shorter, and forrest fires would be much more severe.

The Majority of scientists do not thing global warming is happening. Many believe there is not enough data to make this kind of conclusion. Many agree we would need to know the average temperatures world wide over a much longer period of time than the last 100 years.

Yesterday's local paper had an alarming article from a TN lawmaker written after his trip to Greenland. Appearantly, there are some visible signs of melting ice and glaciers. However, this is the summer season. And, according to the Viking documents written 1000 years ago, Greenland was GREEN! It was able to support animals with vegetation and humans with essentials. While nobody is certain what happened to this hearty race, historians believe the climate became much colder there. The people became mal-nourished and smaller as well as the animals. Sustaining life became much harder, perhaps impossible due to climate changes.

Something caused the climate to change drastically over 1000 years ago without any help from man. Could our climate still be prone to drastic changes? Are we brass enough to believe we are the cause/effect of the weather pattern and God fails to have a hand in it now??

My point is this. Don't blindly accept the global warming hype the media feeds us all the time. Consider the political power of those advocating global warming. We can find a lot of positive steps our own country has taken to improve air quality over the years. We should continue to search for affordable ways to keep our precious earth clean for the future generations. Ideally, every human deserves clean air, clean water, and clean food. Only when the human race understands and respects God as the creator and giver everything "under heaven", will people be motivated to take care of the planet and treat it with respect.

Now go plant something!

Things I HATE!

The smell of Pine-Sol

I despise chicken livers - my parents forced me to eat one - and it came back up! Serves them right!

People who litter

You know when you exit a building and you use the door on the right and start to open it, and some moron is trying to get into the building, and barges right through your side??? I HATE THIS! Use the other door Moron!

People who talk on their cell and blab out loud in public so we have no choice but to hear the details of their private lives. Hey I don't care what you think of your IN-Laws!

Flies in my house. I have started placing a bounty on each fly - If you kill a fly in my house, you get 50 cents and I get to keep my sense.

Pens which don't work - if you don't write for me, I F-13 you!

People who blink left and turn right - Hey if you can't figure out which way you intend to steer and set your blinker - GET OFF THE ROAD!

The stintch from our sewer treatment center located in the MIDDLE of town. One thing is for certain- This town is full of crap!

Dishonesty - I take after my mother - lie to me and I will have a very hard time ever trusting you again...

Copays and deductibles - we've taken a second mortgage to pay the "out of pocket" medical expenses this year. We now call it "out of our house" expenses.

I am SICK of seeing Brad Pitt, Anjolie, and Jennifer's pix on every tabloid and magazine in the checkout. Can we please have another subject to focus on for the next 5 Years??

Panty hose - I think I own 1 pair.

Slips - If it's too sheer to wear without a slip, it's too SHEER (My Grandmother would be very upset to know I have broken this prudent rule of modesty - I don't own a slip)

The smell of burning leaves.

Mc Donalds and Buffet restaurants. Look around sometime at the health of the people who frequent these establishments. That could be us someday if we keep eating there.

Mold

When icecream gets freezer burnt

Stepping on a cold green bean someone dropped and didn't pick up off the kitchen floor

Whining

More whining!

The clerks who whine over the loudspeaker at Wal-mart. Shouldn't you have to pass some type of "lesson" before handing these whino's the loudspeaker Mike???

I could go on, but I will stop.

What do you hate?