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Originally Posted by Libertine
(Post 16598306)
But nobody's talking about abolishing all CO2 emissions including the natural ones... if only because that's absolutely impossible.
Though, I guess, half a billion square miles of saran wrap could go a long way... hmmm.
But back on topic, it is an absolute certainty that we are releasing far more CO2 than is normal. You don't even need any studies for that (though there are many out there), just some common sense: there are billions of metric tons of CO2 stored in the petroleum, natural gas and coal we burn each year. By burning that stuff, we release the CO2 into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, it took various organisms many millions of years to die off and thereby store their carbon underground in the form of coal, oil and natural gas.
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It is not absolutely certain... it's certain that we release it, it's not certain that we 'add' to the volume, that's a theory. The growth in global co2 levels does not match any part what humans contribute... our contribution is minor in the scale in growth.
Let me give you an overview of some of the provable/backed research...
10,000's of year process of ice melting, the suns job, creating more co2 from warming up naturally, brought on the the freezing event of 1700's which crippled part of the northern hemisphere. A massive ice-damn melted flooded the oceans with fresh water, moving currents, warm into cold water, creating yet even more co2.
You can see this on every single Co2 chart produced in the world. World Co2 levels drop, due to the massive freeze the world wide temp's dropped. (why ours were already down) Exactly as the temp's started to increase and ice started to melt "again" the Co2 levels sky rocketed.
When you have ice melting, the sun can warm water, that produced more co2. When you mix ocean waters with fresh water, that moves ocean water. Mixing cold and warm currents, changing currents and putting warm water around ice. Making the entire process sky rocket in speed.
The end result..we are in a massive heating up phase on earth, a hot cycle. We aren't anywhere near what the temps were before the little ice age. This lowered Co2 levels an extreme amount... but the sun doesn't care, it continued to do it's job.
Human should focus on saving the Forests, food supplies, ocean foods, our local environments, and water.
Not Co2 levels.... which is impossible to slow down.
