Would a cross-species pandemic end the threat of global warming?

Question

According to Nasa, an average human exhales 1.0kg of CO2 per day. There are 6.6 billion humans on the planet, therefore, the total CO2 generated from human respiration is 6.6 billion kilograms per day, or 2,400 teragrams per year.

According to the EPA, worldwide transportation use of fossil fuels generates 1,856 teragrams of carbon dioxide per year. Say, 80% of that is from automobiles, and we get about 1,500 teragrams from automobiles. So, human respiration accounts for 60% more carbon dioxide production than automobiles.

If you include all 1.3 million oxygen-breathing species in the calculation and assume that the average produces about 10% of what a human produces and assume about the same number of individuals of each, then respiration accounts for about 300 million teragrams of carbon, or about 500 times that produced by all worldwide use of fossil fuels.

Based on this, wouldn't a pandemic resulting in the death of 0.2% of all animal life eliminate the threat of GW?

Answer 1

Well-- about 40% of CO2 emmission in USA are from electric power plants with about 33% from vehicles of all types--- aircraft are about another 4%.

http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_cse.h...

So your number should be about 25-30% more than humans exhale --- if your numbers are correct...... ?

Answer 2

The short answer is, who cares? Kill humans to make the world a better place? Better for who? The cure is worse than the disease then.

But you got your science all wrong. Respiration has ZERO carbon footprint, because all the carbon exhaled came out of the air in the first place, when the plants that were eaten to stay alive grew.

Answer 3

The correct percent of oxygen is 20.9% pf atmosphere. If the CO2 increases to the point that oxygen drops below 19.5% U will die. At present the envirementalist measure the CO2 at about 380 ppm. Now convert the ppm to percent and it is .000380% which is nothing. It looks like U did a lot of work on this to miss it so bad. U missed it so bad because U gave no credit to the green plants which has taken care of a lot of CO2. Also the plants take in CO2 and give us O2 ,but the plant keeps the C. Later the C breaks down into oil & gas. The fossil fuels are from plant fossils not animal fossils.

Answer 4

“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”- prince phillip of edinburgh

so i don't know, mr. ulluminati bilderburg, would 500,00 people be an acceptable population level for you?

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Answer 5

My my my, how easy it is for you to imagine

the horrible deaths of millions of people,

and all mammals.  Tell me, where do you

and your family fit into this scenario?  Do

you want the first part, and get it over quick?

or do you want the middle part, where you get to watch your children die in agony from no oxygen, or maybe you want to be among the last so you can live longer.

But remember, once this deck of cards

starts falling, it will never come together

again.

Answer 6

Sure try it and let's see if it does.  Go mate with a lizard.