Other than you wandering madly in a storm, I’m afraid I missed the Lear reference. However, I did keeping thinking of what King George III said to Edward Gibbon — “Well, well, well, Mr Gibbon; another big, fat book?” — on his presentation of the “Decline and Fall”. I’m looking forward to the next installment!
Oh, by the way, the Kyoto Protocol seeks to decrease carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gas) emissions. Acid rain is caused mostly by sulphur dioxide. Sadly this undermines your joke. Sorry to be a spoilsport.
Greg, you old miser. I’m going to stand by my joke because I did GCSE Chemistry and know for a fact that non-metallic oxide salts (such as Carbon Dioxide) are acidic when in solution. Therefore, although Sulphur Dioxide is “mostly” (your word) responsible for acid rain, Carbon Dioxide plays its part in a small but important way.
Stet gaggus.
Yes I was careful to include the word “mostly” because you’re right, carbon dioxide does make rain water acidic. It forms carbonic acid, with a pH of about 6 (see Wikipedia “carbonic acid”). In the days before pollution this was why rain was slightly (very slightly) acidic. But if you look at the Wikipedia article on Acid Rain, you’ll find it’s defined as rain water acidity below 5. This is caused by mainly sulphur and nitric oxides forming acids in solution. Kyoto doesn’t aim to limit these. It aims to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide does not play an important role in anything but photosynthesis, the greenhouse effect, and human induced climate change.
Remember, we were systematically lied to a GCSE. I still bear some of the scars. Bloody government. I refer you to Salter’s chemistry A level, chapter “Developing Fuels”. Most interesting part of the course, from what I remember. Would you like me to tell you how they make petrol… ?
Will you two ever stop trying to out-Wikipedia each other? Richard can you link photos to relevant bits of your tome pls? That would be even more cool.
If you had a choice between Takayama and Nara which would you pick?
You really didn’t indicate if Hida Village was as neat as Takayama. If not, would it be silly to see Takayama without Hida Village?
Thanks for your commentary and thoughts about Japan
Greg
5 February 2006, 4.02 pm #
Other than you wandering madly in a storm, I’m afraid I missed the Lear reference. However, I did keeping thinking of what King George III said to Edward Gibbon — “Well, well, well, Mr Gibbon; another big, fat book?” — on his presentation of the “Decline and Fall”. I’m looking forward to the next installment!
Oh, by the way, the Kyoto Protocol seeks to decrease carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gas) emissions. Acid rain is caused mostly by sulphur dioxide. Sadly this undermines your joke. Sorry to be a spoilsport.
Richard Flynn
6 February 2006, 12.41 pm #
Greg, you old miser. I’m going to stand by my joke because I did GCSE Chemistry and know for a fact that non-metallic oxide salts (such as Carbon Dioxide) are acidic when in solution. Therefore, although Sulphur Dioxide is “mostly” (your word) responsible for acid rain, Carbon Dioxide plays its part in a small but important way.
Stet gaggus.
Greg
7 February 2006, 2.02 pm #
Yes I was careful to include the word “mostly” because you’re right, carbon dioxide does make rain water acidic. It forms carbonic acid, with a pH of about 6 (see Wikipedia “carbonic acid”). In the days before pollution this was why rain was slightly (very slightly) acidic. But if you look at the Wikipedia article on Acid Rain, you’ll find it’s defined as rain water acidity below 5. This is caused by mainly sulphur and nitric oxides forming acids in solution. Kyoto doesn’t aim to limit these. It aims to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide does not play an important role in anything but photosynthesis, the greenhouse effect, and human induced climate change.
Remember, we were systematically lied to a GCSE. I still bear some of the scars. Bloody government. I refer you to Salter’s chemistry A level, chapter “Developing Fuels”. Most interesting part of the course, from what I remember. Would you like me to tell you how they make petrol… ?
Bridget
11 February 2006, 4.02 pm #
Will you two ever stop trying to out-Wikipedia each other? Richard can you link photos to relevant bits of your tome pls? That would be even more cool.
Lynn
10 April 2006, 5.04 pm #
If you had a choice between Takayama and Nara which would you pick?
You really didn’t indicate if Hida Village was as neat as Takayama. If not, would it be silly to see Takayama without Hida Village?
Thanks for your commentary and thoughts about Japan
Abeek
18 April 2006, 12.04 pm #
No. Also, the verb ‘to begee’ is, like ‘to be’, viz
I amgee, you aregee, he /she/ it isgee; we aregee, you aregee, they aregee.
The first p. singular here is different, it would seem, from all others.
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