as well as a method of suicide, combined with carbon MONoxide for a more nerve deadening effect, vis a vis the old, run the car in an enclosed garage and go to sleep method.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > Jed Rothwell wrote: >> 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. > > The argument (or non-argument) also depends critically on the definition > of "a lot" of CO2. > > Note well that CO2 can be used as an anesthetic in small animal surgery > (it knocks them cold) and it is also used to perform euthanasia on small > animals (it knocks them colder). Again, it all depends on the > concentration. > > >> That's got nothing remotely to do with climatology, and you know it. >> >> - Jed >> > >
