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PoliticsRe: Oritsejafor Breaks Silence On $9.3m Arms Deal Saga. by padeolu: 11:01pm On Oct 01, 2014
tonytony208: can you pls show me how a xtian can hold political office in nigeria without first compromising his xtian standards? #justasking
I actually don't know what you mean by "Christian standard". But if it is what I think you mean, then these standard varies among doctrine and individuals. And its very possible to actively participate in politics without compromising ones believe. Although it takes inbuilt strength && God's guidance to stay out of sin while holding such post.
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu: 10:56pm On Oct 01, 2014
spotit: great comments everyone, the thing is to go completely green as much as we are able.

even though the politics and intricacies of going green has implications on food shortage. going biofuel to me is a bit crazy; with the exception of sugar for electronic batteries, i think we quickly need to go totally solar and hydro everywhere we would have otherwise needed hydrocarbons/nuclear, make little or no wars and implements of war, make more forests than we're quickly exterminating them..being very very mindful is no retrogression...the list is endless but we need to put paid to the mad emissions and our greed when using other universal elements
I concur
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu: 10:39pm On Oct 01, 2014
davien: I appreciate the write-up and by the way if you are a geologist or anyone with an authority on such a field i would urge you to acquire the mean temperatures of all the states in Nigeria....
No, am not a geologist, but a Bioclimatologist by Thesis. I have a second degree in Environmental Mgt && Control... About the climate of Nigeria, I think someone has done a work similar to that. If I can't find the work, I will get another done.

davien: Because climate change i believe by your understanding of it(correct me if i am wrong) should be an abrupt temperature increase....
No, climate change isn't 't just about temperature changes, its about combined change in all climate/weather parameters (rainfall, temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, solar radiation etc). What you described above is global warming && not climate change. Most authors(Nigerians) narrow their study of climate change to temperature changes since it is believed that human feel the direct effect of air temperature much more than other variables.

davien: Climate change is continuous and as such variations of temperatures should be expected before the long term effects kick into play....
very correct sir. But, personally, I won't say that climate has changed. I believe we can only say a climate has changed when there is a complete increase or reduction in the mean (usually 30years or more average) climate pattern. e.g. 1810-2010 has 4 climates (30 years interval). If the average temperature in the first climate (1910-1940) is 18degC, && in the second climate we' have 20degC, && prolly the 3rd we have 23degC, && 4th we have 21degC, that's a variation. It becomes "change" when it has a continuous mean for long && suddenly drifts (increase or decrease) && as such maintains the its new mean.

davien: A study by Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. ...found out that phytoplanktons that are responsible for 80% of carbon sink' into oceans would not thrive as the oceans are now getting hotter
[url] http://e360.yale.edu/digest/ocean_changes_could_diminish_phytoplanktons_role_as_carbon_sink/3168/ [/url]
Also this study of american and china' carbon sink meaurements in the ecosystem......

[url] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0621_carbonsinks_2.html [/url]

I would like to see your opinion on this.... thank you smiley
From the 2nd link

Taking into account the carbon sink effect, 800 million to 1.1 billion tons of carbon accumulates annually in the atmosphere, the researchers say. This refutes the idea that the U.S carbon sink is big enough to equal the amount of carbon that U.S. factories emit through the burning of fossil fuels, as some studies have concluded.
The process of carbon sequestration(intake of carbon compounds by sinks) does not necessarily take place where the carbon compound is emitted. Funny enough, larger percentage of emissions from U.S enters into the regional atmospheric circulation zone through its industrial tall stacks && get transported away from U.S. As we all know, as these compounds are emitted into the atmosphere they get transported almost immediately towards the direction of the wind. That is why it is possible for a country to emit on behalf of another as in the case of Nigeria && U.S., where we are being paid to plants tress in our country. Don't you ever wonder why we keep planting trees && encouraging forest renewal && aforestation. Does a forest ever get developed?

The results of the Princeton-led study are particularly interesting because the 23 scientists who participated in the research and agreed on the conclusions initially held strongly differing views about the size of the U.S. carbon sink.
This is the consensus kind of research I made mention of earlier on. If you study the climate change politics so closely, you'll realize the so called scientists are playing to a script.


1st link let's hope they won't refute that anytime soon.
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 7:35pm On Oct 01, 2014
moyes5757: ya datz d one
ok bro..thanks

Please who else gained admission to Geography dept
PoliticsRe: Oritsejafor Breaks Silence On $9.3m Arms Deal Saga. by padeolu: 7:30pm On Oct 01, 2014
jideomowunmi: Tell me aw one can get into politics without not getting his or her hands dirty...?I think Jesus Christ sets a good example for christians to emulate....maybe we shud be more focused on dat....and ignore all distractions...a christian is a christian...a politician is a politician...mixing both hardly works...
If Christians choose not stay out of politics, then they have nothing to complain about when the non-Christians misrule. #justsaying
Nairaland GeneralRe: A Thread For Fellow Great Magicians: Skills Display Thread - Dickdastardly by padeolu: 7:28pm On Oct 01, 2014
hannesy: ur case is different,let me think of wot 2 do with u lol brb
think fast o, am so getting impatient
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 7:23pm On Oct 01, 2014
moyes5757: nice. I've known d alumni anthem since 2011 buh I've never bothered to learn d new one cus I dnt rili lyk it ............
do they have an alumni anthem? its the "great ife, great ife, African most beautiful campus, culture...." am learning o. This matter don dey tire person sef
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu: 7:20pm On Oct 01, 2014
davien: I never made an assertion that "carbon monoxide" in particular has any prolonged residual time....
And yes i do know plant life requires carbon dioxide....and do you know plant life also gives out carbon dioxide?...
"Over 100 billion metric tons of carbon emissions are a scar that naturally could take eons to fix naturally...yet this is the amount that has been pumped into the atmosphere for a while now...."

Sorry I misinterpreted you, by atmospheric carbon, I thought you were referring to either CO, CO2 or gaseous hydrocarbons


davien: Do you also understand that the things that make use of carbon emissions later on still give that carbon back into the environment in different forms....
yes bro, they do give it back to nature in a different && sometimes thesame form as it is taken (in this case gaseous). Since this argument is based on climate change, then we need not to bother ourself with the "different" forms. Rather limit the cvrbon compounds to CO, CO2 && HC(g)

davien: so how then is it not responsible for climate change when;
Animals exhale carbon dioxide....
plants absorb it(not a 100% absorption)
...prolly the rest is used up for other processes && aswell in keeping the PBL warm.

davien: The plants die and give back the carbon in the form of coal or oil or become fossilized...either way this takes a very long time(decaying being an exception)
we need not to bother ourself with oil, coal etc also. They are minerals in solid && liquid form. The can't possibly cause climate change this way.

davien: Meanwhile the unused carbon still lingers in the atmosphere....
in what quantity? The higher the quantity the better the quality. Studies (I wish I can tag the pdf files here) have shown that higher quantity of Carbon in the atmosphere leads to higher flora productivity.

davien: Deposits of coal and gas are extracted and burnt...adding even more carbon emissions....
Yes bro, its in cycle.

davien: I'll even say for the sake of argument that the above is in perfect equilibrium...but then why is marine life,glaciers,soil uptake of CO2 and the lot that is necessary for "carbon sink" dwindling rapidlyhuh
dwindling rapidly? I totally doubt that.


I'm not saying atmospheric carbon compounds(or other GHGs) hasn't increased over time, but, the effect of this increase is negligible. I once plotted a line graph of Nigeria's(Lagos) mean annual temperature(air) between 1910 && 2010. Bros, I realized what we have is a fluctuation/variation && not a complete change as we are made to believe. Although a different result may be gotten if a global scale data is used.

I'll search my laptop prolly I may still have graph.
Nairaland GeneralRe: A Thread For Fellow Great Magicians: Skills Display Thread - Dickdastardly by padeolu: 6:14pm On Oct 01, 2014
hannesy: I can make op turn to cat,dear me
I dear you




I'm not the OP tho
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 6:08pm On Oct 01, 2014
chisombenedicta: for ur tiny miind cheesy
lol.. Wetin I do sis? Isn't that what they say in OAU cheesy.. "am actually learning the school anthem ATM, I think I now know the first stanza offhand
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 6:02pm On Oct 01, 2014
moyes5757: I av neva cin anybodi on diz thread in my lyf buh we are all bonded by d spirit of great ife nd if u av dat spirit 2 den u'll. Fill at ome ere....
that's it bro. Greatest Ife!
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 6:01pm On Oct 01, 2014
haydot95: awwww...actually,we don't...we re all there for eachother and cmon,u re wlcm...don't feel like ure a stranger,u re not,just blend in,u dig?
And em...FTCtongue
yeah, that's comforting, thanks . Happy new month to you
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 6:00pm On Oct 01, 2014
Timmytimmy: .......Nah! NL is an entirely different world....no one knows anyone and everybody knows everybody....just feel free here. smiley
I love bolded rhyme . Thanks bro
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 5:57pm On Oct 01, 2014
Debbychi: Happy bufday to chiamaka and johnwills,wishing u LLNP..May d blessings of God be with you
Amen... 0Happy birthday to them both
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 5:55pm On Oct 01, 2014
PECULIARGEN: [quote author=padeolu)ayam n chemical engineerind department....wah abt u??
ehm! Geography department.. Nice to meet you bro
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 5:55pm On Oct 01, 2014
dora7891: nope not really not all of us... we just flow dont go
I guess I'll pick a seat next to you
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu: 5:45pm On Oct 01, 2014
bolaino: Hmmmm, you've raised some other issues. Do you think The ice ages the earth has experienced at different times in it's long history had to do with Climate change? Did civilizations like the Atlantean civilization, Go extinct because they were leaving too much carbon footprints? Or were harming the planet? Or Are Ice ages a different phenomenon?
I share this view of urs
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu:
davien: The earth can ofcourse do this but the rate it does it is much more slower than the rate we are changing it....
Over 100 billion metric tons of carbon emissions are a scar that naturally could take eons to fix naturally...yet this is the amount that has been pumped into the atmosphere for a while now....
And the glaciers that naturally prevent greenhouse warming are melting rapidly....
Geo-engineering plans to tame this using nano-particles and cloud seeding of which i am not a fan of...
@bolded.... Have you heard of carbon sinks? Do you know flora community depend on these carbon for survival? Do you know that carbon mono oxide has a very little resident time, that it get converted to carbon di oxide within few minutes? So, I'll disagree with that assertion. These gases(GHGs) don't really stay much long in the atmosphere before they get used up either biologically, physically or chemically. Am not saying they don't lead to other environmental issue, but, definitely not climate change.
Nairaland GeneralRe: A Thread For Fellow Great Magicians: Skills Display Thread - Dickdastardly by padeolu: 1:52pm On Oct 01, 2014
^sorry bro, its on the back page.

Okay, am a magician, I can make a puzzy talk.

Dare me, bring me a clean puzzy, && you'd be marveled at what'll happen afterward
Nairaland GeneralRe: This Is Confusing To All Men...seriously! by padeolu: 1:48pm On Oct 01, 2014
Ehm! Babies are cuties. I can't wait to have mine.
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 7:51pm On Sep 30, 2014
It seem you all know eachother outta NL, I wonder why no one is talking to me here *pensive*. maybe I should just walk out && find something else doing while waiting for our session to start. sad sad sad
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu: 7:43pm On Sep 30, 2014
spotit: of course you can choose to believe anything you want, i do also hold my conspiracist opinion in some other areas. what happens to men when they get greedier is what the planet shows us as global warming, food shortage and all. yes every young thing is expected to age, but how delicately u treat it would determine how gracefully it does in the process. it's left to you to choose between the "negligible" effects of your manhandling and the near-zero complications that go with non-catalysed natural process. i guess you're gonna say mankind has tried in taming the mean side of nature, but what's the benefit in taking a drug overdose to stop a personal ailment? what is the relationship between the natural aging of the earth and artificial electronic equipment(functional and derelict) floating increasingly in space plus the hydrocarbon wastes (although cfcs are now banned) pumped everyday here on earth, outrageous devegetation and things? catalytic much? no. negligible, yea?
I quite understand the what you are saying. But i will try not to go out of context in communicating my view.
Truly, human isnt treating its environment (earth) well. But I still think it is unfair to attribute climate change to man's existience. As i earlier stated, the climate has always been changing and it will continue to change (with or without man).Even before man, the earth environment has gone through a period of excessive warming, which is quite warmer than what we "believe" to be withnessing, also, ice age, the earth has aswell had a much more rise in her sea level, etc.

The so called theory of climate change is based on cosensus and not some scientific fact. I've being closely following the climate change politics since 2009 and you'll be surprised that the whole climate change thingy is more or less a hoax. What we are actually withnessing is a slight variation or fluctuation from the climatic mean which is pretty normal. It has happened before, and it will happen again. why then are we worried?

Several studies has shown that the mars is getting warmer, will you aswell attribute that to man? bros, truth be told, urbanization and industrialization is indeed affecting the earth but the earth has a way of adjusting to this changes.

About the ban on CFCs. It was just immidiately after the CFC ban that the so called scientists come up with the issue of CO2 being a potent GHG. I still but womder why CO2 is considered a pollutant and O2 isnt. Isnt that also being unfair to the plants if we reduce what they their life depends on?
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 4:56pm On Sep 30, 2014
Mizkelz: Hey!!!! Ewrybdy....mizkelz...chem eng....xpredite n wordite....
wordite?
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu: 3:15pm On Sep 30, 2014
spotit: see bruv, u have clearly never been in manufacturing. u have not seen data on hazardous waste disposal nor directly witnessed the actual instant effect of industrial materials in the ecosystem
Here is it bro, Climate change is as complex as the word climate. Its more than global average temperature increase (global warming). When you talk of climate change, then ur talking of a complete change in weather parameters (temperature, rainfall, atmospheric pressure, wind etc).
That said, municipal and industrial air pollutant discharge, ofcourse, its a great issue to be worried about. But I tell you, its effect on the said "climate change" is negligible.
Christianity EtcRe: Nairalanders, Let's Discuss Climate Change. by padeolu: 2:34pm On Sep 30, 2014
I strongly disagree with the general notion that human is the main cause of climate change, viz a viz global warming. I see it as more of a natural phenomenon than anthropogenic.

The climate has always being changing (which is natural), so have nothing really to worry about. We should start worrying when the climate stop changing. Even before man, the earth has gone through several phases of alternate warming && cooling. Why then are we bothered about the present occurrence of climate variation (not change) since the earth has survived much worse scenario.


Although the intensity/severity of climate variability (not change) may be attributed to man's activity.
EducationRe: . by padeolu: 12:07pm On Sep 30, 2014
With an E8 in physics, I doubt if you will be offered admission into any department in faculty of Technology. Departments in Faculty of science is doubtful aswell. Prolly Botany, Microbiology or any other biological science MAY consider you. But the chances are slim.
My advice is that you process ur admission into any department in Social Sciences, there your chances are higher.
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 10:21am On Sep 30, 2014
PECULIARGEN: @timmy i stay @ IB. Gv me ya watsapp contact nomba....xo d@ we cn chat beta...

N guyzz don't u fink we shld be talk abt our nxt obstacle nw....asin each departments way of duin finz zo d@ we won't b lik dummyzzz wen we get dre....or wah do u finkhuh
what dept are you admitted to?
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 10:19am On Sep 30, 2014
superT14: am getting sick and tired of all diz....criously if dey born ASUU or SUG ibikunle or OAU omole well, make dem cos anoda strike again.....nah thunder go strike all of dem.....abi....staying@ hom after being admitted z jz so annoying
I feel ur pain. But its a norm in OAU to observe the yearly strike/closure. We can only hope 2015 strike/closure won't be as long as the one observed this year.
EducationRe: OAU 2014/2015 FRESHERS (newly Admitted Students) Meet Here by padeolu: 10:16am On Sep 30, 2014
Dammytrager: UPDATE: 215 days to go #resumption 2014/15 session
damn! That's almost a year. Any suggestions on what we can be doing till then?
Nairaland GeneralRe: If U Are Found In This Kind Of Situation,what Will U Do?. (admin Fp Pls) by padeolu: 2:10am On Sep 30, 2014
Oro kanka #Labeorun thingz
Dating And Meet-up ZoneRe: I Have Seen My Special One by padeolu: 2:06am On Sep 30, 2014
rawpadgin: my friend u are not in LOVE

u are in LOST

how can u be in love with someone u haven't spoken tohuh
cheesy
FamilyRe: . by padeolu: 1:56am On Sep 30, 2014
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