> (Otherwise, you'd be calling CO2 itself a pollutant.)

"EPA finds carbon dioxide is a pollutant"
http://www.pulpandpapercanada.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=98967&issue=04202009

On May 6, 11:57 am, [email protected] wrote:
> James:
>
> The trouble with your pollution standard:
>
> "Putting clouds of sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere is itself
> polluting and hence violates the second criterion"
>
> is that you have no clear definition of pollution.
> SO2 occurs naturally, driven by volcanoes etc.
> Further, pollution is when a substance is harmfully present, not just
> detectable. That's a higher standard and the subject of much work, as
> it requires understand a system, not just measuring a parameter.
> (Otherwise, you'd be calling CO2 itself a pollutant.)
>
> Further, you seem unaware that unforeseen effects can and are dealt
> with by doing experiments, perturbing systems, etc, as physics has done
> for centuries. You can't learn through definitions; that takes
> experience.
>
> Gregory Benford
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