Derrick
My dad works at a meteorologist lab, and last week I went to his office as usual. When I was there, he let me go on MSN on his computer, and I got bored so I just started going through his files, and there was one which talked about levels of CO2 near the ground increasing and it had some graphs and stuff that I didn't understand at all, so I asked my dad about it and he explained to me that there is this thing that happens rarely in which large CO2 clouds come down to the surface in large areas and stay there for a while, and this can kill people. Then he told me that this was going to happen and that we were going to have to stay in a place which has some oxygen things, kind of like a submarine, and when I asked what would happen to the people, he told me that I should keep this as a secret since if people know it they will ask the government to supply them with oxygen tanks and stuff, and then a lot of people would die anyway and it would be the government's fault, and if they keep it as a secret then the government doesn't have to do anything and after a lot of people die, they can just say this even was not predicted and it was an unknown effect from global warming.
He asked me not to tell anyone, but I really can't keep this secret because I feel bad knowing that a lot of people could die and i'm not doing anything about it, and i'm disappointed with my dad.
Answer
Carbon dioxide is not dangerous in itself. Remember that each time you breathe, you exhale carbon dioxide from the combustion in your body. While your arteries bring oxygen to your cells, your veins bring carbon dioxide to you lungs.
If, for example, you keep your engine running in the garage, it is not the carbon dioxide (CO2) but the carbon monoxide (CO) that will kill you because it reacts entirely differently in our blood system.
As the pilot of my homemade little aircraft, I have a carbon monoxide detector in the cockpit. This is to ensure that, if a leak should happen in the engine's exhaust system in front of me, it will be detected before I faint and die.
The carbon dioxide content of our atmosphere is only about 0.04 percent. While it is not much, it doesn't take much more for us to feel its effect: headache and dizziness. But the event that a very large concentration that could kill us is most unlikely. This is why:
Carbon dioxide has a natural cycle in nature. In fact, much of it is trapped in the seabed by dead organisms that is then buried by the tectonic plates displacement. Later, it comes up as fumes when magma is then released through volcanoes. Such great release of carbon dioxide is not new and has happened since the beginning of time.
Other forms of carbon dioxide production from animal and human life on earth, can never reach such degrees of concentration. What is, indeed, releases, moves up and down with the natural cycle of the atmosphere where warm air rises and cold air sinks. But carbon dioxide is basically heavier than air and I don't see how a "large cloud of it" could sink upon us.
I don't know the actual position your father has but you must understand that, if that was a fact, there would be several people who would know about it. And you know that some people would do just anything to alarm us about the danger of our use of fossil fuel. They would jump on the occasion to blow the whistle, don't you think?
Carbon dioxide is not dangerous in itself. Remember that each time you breathe, you exhale carbon dioxide from the combustion in your body. While your arteries bring oxygen to your cells, your veins bring carbon dioxide to you lungs.
If, for example, you keep your engine running in the garage, it is not the carbon dioxide (CO2) but the carbon monoxide (CO) that will kill you because it reacts entirely differently in our blood system.
As the pilot of my homemade little aircraft, I have a carbon monoxide detector in the cockpit. This is to ensure that, if a leak should happen in the engine's exhaust system in front of me, it will be detected before I faint and die.
The carbon dioxide content of our atmosphere is only about 0.04 percent. While it is not much, it doesn't take much more for us to feel its effect: headache and dizziness. But the event that a very large concentration that could kill us is most unlikely. This is why:
Carbon dioxide has a natural cycle in nature. In fact, much of it is trapped in the seabed by dead organisms that is then buried by the tectonic plates displacement. Later, it comes up as fumes when magma is then released through volcanoes. Such great release of carbon dioxide is not new and has happened since the beginning of time.
Other forms of carbon dioxide production from animal and human life on earth, can never reach such degrees of concentration. What is, indeed, releases, moves up and down with the natural cycle of the atmosphere where warm air rises and cold air sinks. But carbon dioxide is basically heavier than air and I don't see how a "large cloud of it" could sink upon us.
I don't know the actual position your father has but you must understand that, if that was a fact, there would be several people who would know about it. And you know that some people would do just anything to alarm us about the danger of our use of fossil fuel. They would jump on the occasion to blow the whistle, don't you think?
Hello i woke up this morning and felt light headed and a bit dizzy and off blanace, i throught nothingoff it?
MoNkEy
My eyes take a while to adjust when i turn my head. I still feel a the same and this is after two hours. I havent eaten anything but had a small glass of apple juice. Any guesses
Answer
There's probably some harmless reason for it. Maybe you are fighting a virus of some sort or perhaps you are simply overly tired from a busy weekend.
A less benign reason for dizziness upon waking might be the air you are breathing in during the night: Do you have carbon monoxide detectors in your house or flat? I'm not suggesting, by any stretch, that carbon monoxide fumes are leaking into your room, but go out and get a carbon monoxide detector just to make sure.
If your nights are cold enough to warrant turning on a heater, the vents that blow the warm air into each room might be dirty. This could cause an unwell feeling in the morning after rising.
Of course, you could have an ear infection which is causing the symptoms you describe; as a matter of fact, you might even have a condition called benign positional vertigo which can cause distressing dizziness in the afflicted person when he turns his head, sits up suddenly, bends down, or simply changes the position of the head for any reason. The disturbance can be corrected by exercises that can be found on the internet if not via your doctor. Best wishes for a better day tomorrow.
There's probably some harmless reason for it. Maybe you are fighting a virus of some sort or perhaps you are simply overly tired from a busy weekend.
A less benign reason for dizziness upon waking might be the air you are breathing in during the night: Do you have carbon monoxide detectors in your house or flat? I'm not suggesting, by any stretch, that carbon monoxide fumes are leaking into your room, but go out and get a carbon monoxide detector just to make sure.
If your nights are cold enough to warrant turning on a heater, the vents that blow the warm air into each room might be dirty. This could cause an unwell feeling in the morning after rising.
Of course, you could have an ear infection which is causing the symptoms you describe; as a matter of fact, you might even have a condition called benign positional vertigo which can cause distressing dizziness in the afflicted person when he turns his head, sits up suddenly, bends down, or simply changes the position of the head for any reason. The disturbance can be corrected by exercises that can be found on the internet if not via your doctor. Best wishes for a better day tomorrow.
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