Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World

Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by TeMPOraL on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:30AM (#20256205)

> Some say massive forest also transpire humidity. All this might be positive to dampen climate change (if done worldwide).

Caveat though: higher humidity + rising temperatures = bad. The more humid the air is, the worse evaporative cooling works, which means it's that much harder for human body to keep its temperature in check. For example, [0] tells us that at 46 °C and 50% humidity, humans can no longer cool down through sweating - i.e. the ambient air becomes deadly to all humans.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature.

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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by agumonkey on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:48AM (#20256328)

I thought about large scale higher altitudes humidity but fair point (although the less humans the better the climate statistics say)

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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by TeMPOraL on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:52PM (#20256821)

> (although the less humans the better the climate statistics say)

Yeah, I've seen those, but that's like observing that the best way to kill cancer is to kill the patient. Kind of missing why we bother with the problem in the first place :).

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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by agumonkey on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:57PM (#20256869)

I shall not try to sell my ballistics based therapy ..

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