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Of the 186 billion tons of carbon from CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.
I will have fun arguing with people when they think we are the main cause of global warming and/or climate change
And i never said that PHD peer-reviewed scientist made sensationalist claims don't put words in my mouth
"People assume that we're political, that we're either pro-global-warming or anti-global-warming, when it's really neither," Patterson added. "Our goal is just to understand climate."
Of the 186 billion tons of carbon from CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.
At 380 parts per million CO2 is a minor constituent of earth's atmosphere-- less than 4/100ths of 1% of all gases present. Compared to former geologic times, earth's current atmosphere is CO2- impoverished
And now recently i heard of them trying to implement a driving tax hrmm..... Think about it.
As for the links you've posted to articles, most are written by journalists, not scientists... which is precisely my point. Simply because many media outlets do a poor job of reporting climate science does not mean the scientists themselves are making wild sensationalist claims that aren't backed by their own scientific findings.
One of the primary past-times of government is to tax things. They tax nearly everything regardless. Simply because some politicians want to use Climate Change to squeeze more money out of the people is no reason to disregard the scientific consensus on the subject.
we have been warming since 10,000+ years ago way before the Industrial Revolution
Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.
Originally posted by thinkingthing
reply to post by XRaDiiX
we have been warming since 10,000+ years ago way before the Industrial Revolution
Yes, when coming out of an ice age, the climate tends to warm.
At 380 parts per million CO2 is a minor constituent of earth's atmosphere-- less than 4/100ths of 1% of all gases present. Compared to former geologic times, earth's current atmosphere is CO2- impoverished
Total human contributions to greenhouse gases account for only about 0.28% of the "greenhouse effect" (Figure 2). Anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide (CO2) comprises about 0.117% of this total, and man-made sources of other gases ( methane, nitrous oxide (NOX), other misc. gases) contributes another 0.163% .
Approximately 99.72% of the "greenhouse effect" is due to natural causes -- mostly water vapor and traces of other gases, which we can do nothing at all about. Eliminating human activity altogether would have little impact on climate change.
CO2 in our atmosphere has been increasing steadily for the last 18,000 years-- long before humans invented smokestacks ( Figure 1). Unless you count campfires and intestinal gas, man played no role in the pre-industrial increases.
As illustrated in this chart of Ice Core data from the Soviet Station Vostok in Antarctica, CO2 concentrations in earth's atmosphere move with temperature. Both temperatures and CO2 have been on the increase for 18,000 years. Interestingly, CO2 lags an average of about 800 years behind the temperature changes-- confirming that CO2 is not a primary driver of the temperature changes (9).
Incidentally, earth's temperature and CO2 levels today have reached levels similar to a previous interglacial cycle of 120,000 - 140,000 years ago. From beginning to end this cycle lasted about 20,000 years. This is known as the Eemian Interglacial Period and the earth returned to a full-fledged ice age immediately afterward.
Its actually sorta scary what would happen but the process is shown to be gradual over 100's to 1000's of years for the climate to change dramatically so it won't exactly be a rapid change.
Counter to your C02 Information about Dead-Zones and killing off Fish. Yes sea life has gone on living still even though C02 was much higher in the past. De-bunked... whats your point?