03-22-2007, 05:27 PM | #241 | |
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Maybe we DO contribute, but if it was a natural cycle anyways, HOW MUCH do we contribute? Is the contribution dangerous?
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These numbers of athmospheric carbon come from the UN report I posted a link to earlier, Livestock's Long Shadow page 85 (which is really page 109), table 3.2 Units are in billion tonnes carbon into the athmosphere per year - Fossil fuel burning: 4-5 Soil organic matter oxidation/erosion: 61-62 Respiration from organisms in the biosphere: 50 Deforestation: 2 Net influx: 117-119 Billion tonnes carbon out of the athmosphere per year - Incorporation into biosphere through photosyntesis: 110 Diffusion into oceans: 2.5 Net efflux: 112.5 Given that the net efflux of carbon from the atmosphere is 112.5, we get a net increase of 4.5-6.5 units a year, which equals about fossil fuel usage and deforestation together. If nature had it's way, there wouldn't be a net increase in atmospheric carbon according to these numbers. However because of humans there is a comparatively small yearly influx of carbon that will eventually lead to a warmer climate.
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There was no 3.5 on page 85...can't seem to find that table. Sure you didn't get the page number wrong?
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Oh, it seems page number 109 has the number "85" at the bottom right. So page 109 it is.
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What about those numbers underneath "Out of Atmosphere"? Does that refer to the annual dropping of co2/whatever levels in the atmosphere?
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Yes, and I included the total "Out of Atmosphere" number in my post. As I already said:
Given that the net eflux of carbon from the atmosphere is 112.5, we get a net increase of 4.5-6.5 units a year, which equals about fossil fuel usage and deforestation together.
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Backs my idea...?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0310075412.htm
This article says there is a study that says that the Ice Age was responsible for the low level of CO2 in the atmosphere during that time. Wouldn't this indicate that when it is warmer, more co2s are naturally sucked up into the atmosphere? My precipitation theory? You know, the water cycle...?
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A rise in CO2 means a rise in contained heat in the atmosphere, ergo: a rise in temperature. A rise in temperature then triggers a release of more CO2, adding to the effect. The oceans, for example (IIRC), give up CO2 as they warm. (So naturally they'd store more CO2 as they cool, maybe the answer to your remark about the Ice Ages? Haven't checked.) Human CO2 emissions can therefore quite plausibly be 'the straw that broke the camel's back' and send the system off balance and towards global warming.
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But: even so, you can debate to what extent our co2s are working this compared to naturally emitted co2s.
This shows that global warming in previous times was just as bad/not bad as it is today.
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I don't quite see the connection you're making there.
Could be because it's past midnight here and tomorrow's a working day. I'll be back tomorrow and maybe the brain's more cooperating then.
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You're just trying to get out of your responsibility!!!
Get your behind to the PMing machine this instant young lady...
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CO2 and global temperature seem to rise and fall together. More ice would lower CO2 levels. CO2 would increase ice. There's interdependence and it's not that easy to say which is the cause and which is the result. Ice and CO2 could start a similar spiral like the one I already explained to you about heat and CO2. Besides, the article doesn't mention any time scale whatsoever. The global warming humans are causing is said to increase temperatures much faster than would be natural, say after an ice age. Quote:
About global warming previous times, I'll quote what BJ said a few posts back: Quote:
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Just think about it like smoking cigarettes. We are all going to die one day! (muhahaha ) But, if you smoke, you are very likely to make that day come a whole lot sooner.
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Hector, just to let you know, though I disagree with you about Global Warming, I find it very cool that you've got the guts to take on everybody in this debate .
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... kinda like you huh?
(i'm sure there is a mirror gag in there somewhere! ..but i won't say put it down Lief! ) J/k best, BB ... you know one day Duke S or Sister etc will look in the mirror and work out 'i' comes before 'e' except after 'c' ... with of course probably some exceptions ... eh what Lief? Last edited by Butterbeer : 03-27-2007 at 06:28 PM. |
03-27-2007, 07:20 PM | #257 | |
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Don't hold your breath, my friend.
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03-27-2007, 07:42 PM | #258 |
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... homeschooling?
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03-27-2007, 08:04 PM | #259 |
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That i before e stuff should be outlawed. Who came up with that crap?
1) None of the examples of where I should go before E are really that crucial. Chief and Cheif are pretty darn similar, IMO 2) The I before E thing isn't consistently true enough to make a law of it. 3) Sometimes 'E can look better before I
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