Randy Dutton's Blog - Posts Tagged "carbon-sequestration"
Why this book?
While some take the path less traveled. I've often looked at the two visible trails -- and gone bushwhacking. 'What are the others bypassing?'
I'm a skeptic, have been for most of my life. Through my military career, I was been responsible for personnel, budgets, logistics, or contracts, many of which I've challenged senior officers and civilians on the methods, costs, and legality. I've challenged everything that didn't make legal, technical or financial sense while as a supervisor in the City of Long Beach, CA; as a VP of a packaging technology company; as a fiscal conservative candidate for the Washington State Legislature. Often, I've won, sometimes I been the recipient of retaliation. I've long accepted that life is messy. When confronted with yet another challenge, I've always ruminated with the phrase 'If not me, then who? If not now, then when?' as a motivator.
So it was with The Carbon Series. For years I've been reading both sides of global warming issue and questioned why neither side looked at the more significant issues. CO2, is it good or bad for the planet? Since carbon is a finite resources and the oceans are a sink, at what point will the biosphere be depleted? If mankind hadn't started recycling carbon back into the air by burning fossil fuels, how long would it have taken for CO2 concentrations to drop below, what I term, 'The brown zone' -- the level when nearly all plants on Earth die?
This series is intended to educate as well as entertain. I cherish constructive feedback, and will make every effort to respond to serious questions. Is my book based upon real science? Yes, but I've also taken some license in how it's used, and in projections.Randy Dutton
I'm a skeptic, have been for most of my life. Through my military career, I was been responsible for personnel, budgets, logistics, or contracts, many of which I've challenged senior officers and civilians on the methods, costs, and legality. I've challenged everything that didn't make legal, technical or financial sense while as a supervisor in the City of Long Beach, CA; as a VP of a packaging technology company; as a fiscal conservative candidate for the Washington State Legislature. Often, I've won, sometimes I been the recipient of retaliation. I've long accepted that life is messy. When confronted with yet another challenge, I've always ruminated with the phrase 'If not me, then who? If not now, then when?' as a motivator.
So it was with The Carbon Series. For years I've been reading both sides of global warming issue and questioned why neither side looked at the more significant issues. CO2, is it good or bad for the planet? Since carbon is a finite resources and the oceans are a sink, at what point will the biosphere be depleted? If mankind hadn't started recycling carbon back into the air by burning fossil fuels, how long would it have taken for CO2 concentrations to drop below, what I term, 'The brown zone' -- the level when nearly all plants on Earth die?
This series is intended to educate as well as entertain. I cherish constructive feedback, and will make every effort to respond to serious questions. Is my book based upon real science? Yes, but I've also taken some license in how it's used, and in projections.Randy Dutton
