LC50 for CO2 is 100,000 ppm. OSHA limits are 5,000 ppm. 2009 Ambient atmospheric levels are 389 ppm. Like I said, double the ambient level and it will have no noticeable effect on human breathing!
This whole business comes back to politically trumped up effects on global warming. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:53 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:first day in carbon capture Jeff Fink wrote: >If you put me in a room where CO2 is double the ambient, I won't even >notice. Oh come now! This is not a serious argument. If I put you in a Japanese hot spring bath for a half-hour you would probably find it pleasant. If a million acres of Georgia land were inundated with 50 deg C water filled with sulphur it would be a disaster. Please, give us a break. This is a science forum. You can't just toss out the last hundred years of climatology and substitute a statement about how you would fare if you were put in a room with a lot of CO2. That's got nothing remotely to do with climatology, and you know it. - Jed
