So the question becomes how are we going to get that CO2 converted back into oxygen so we can breathe and so the planet doesn't heat up.
Carbon dioxide dissolves in sea water. It is also used by cyanobacteria for photosynthesis. The most numerous photosynthetic organism on earth are Prochlorococcus. NASA released a study in 2003 showing that the earth was growing more green rather than less green.
I don't know where you got the idea that we are running out of oxygen. There is no evidence for this. However, atmospheric carbon dioxide has been dropping for the past 100 million years. Global temperatures have also been dropping for the last thirty million years. We live in an interglacial period, and the research indicates that it isn't the warmest. The previous one, some 125,000, was warmer. Other interglacial periods, such as the one some 500,000 years were warm enough to allow for very large forests in Greenland.
It is also worth pointing out that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide always
follow atmospheric and ocean warming. The move from the climate of the Little Ice Age to the contemporary climate has probably contributed to some of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. As for the infrared absorbing characteristics of carbon dioxide, they are logarithmic; climate sensitivity decreases with increasing concentration. In other words, the first 20 parts per million of carbon dioxide will have a greater temperature effect than the next 400 parts per million. The rate of annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last thirty years has averaged to about 1.7 parts per million.
Definitely. The world was created in seven days, evolution is a sham, and we and all animals are decendants of those who piled onto an ark for 40 days. Can science ever satisfy those who don't wish to believe what it finds?
Maybe you should address the issue as to why so many people have a total belief concerning projections of the climate in the future? If you look at the scientific literature you will quickly discover that the debate over climate change is not over - contrary to those who suggest it is. The above examples are different issues, are they not?
More to the point, if you are arguing that we shouldn't worry about the extinction or decimation of humanity as a result of catastrophic climate change and subsequent ecosystem collapse (along the lines that dinosaurs shouldn't have tried to deflect the asteroid 350 million years ago had they had the means), then we should save the ecosystem a lot of grief now and just release those nifty genetically engineered small pox strains the US government has stockpiles of. You know, the fun stuff that makes you bleed from every orifice and slough your intestines. Why take many million species with us if we're blissfully speeding towards our own annihilation?
You speak of catastrophic climate change as if it has already happened. Do you have any evidence that this has happened? Beyond suspect computer models, can anyone say with any accuracy what will happen in the future? Climate variability is natural and is not at all based on the singular effect of carbon dioxide - particularly when the most significant atmospheric infrared absorber is water vapour. As for worries about the destruction of the ecosystem as related to temperature, about twenty thousand years ago was the coldest period of the last glacial period, yet the ecosystem was not wiped out. Also, human beings existed during this period in time - and would appear to have managed to have survived it.
(along the lines that dinosaurs shouldn't have tried to deflect the asteroid 350 million years ago had they had the means), then we should save the ecosystem a lot of grief now and just release those nifty genetically engineered small pox strains the US government has stockpiles of. You know, the fun stuff that makes you bleed from every orifice and slough your intestines. Why take many million species with us if we're blissfully speeding towards our own annihilation?
What does any of this have to do with carbon dioxide or climate? How do you actually know we are "blissfully speeding towards our own annihilation"? Do you actually have any evidence, or is this just your belief?
