wirebender
Senior Member
.wirebender said:the fact is that the CO2 we produce is not even enough to overcome the natural deviation from year to year in the earth's own CO2 making machienry
Please justify
The various literature sources put the earth's natural CO2 production at between 750 and 800 gigatons per year. That is a spread of 50 gigatons or an 8.9% margin of error. Do you believe that the natural variation of such an enormous and variable process is less than our best estimates? How would you justify such a claim?
The literature also puts man's CO2 production at between 17 and 25 gigatons per year. You yourself estimated a couple of dozen gigatons per year. Even at the high end of 25 gigatons per year, our production is less than half of the margin of error for our best estimates of natural production.
I need not even go into natural variability which is estimated to be as high as 25% depending on factors such as volcanic activity, wildfire, undersea earthquakes, natural temperature variations, etc. If we pick the median of natural CO2 production of 775 gigatons, even a 5% variation would be over almost 39 gigatons. A 10% natural varibility would be 77.5 gigatons. A 15% natural variability would be over 116 gigatons and 25% natural variability would be over 193 gigatons.
In the end, we don't even produce enough CO2 to overcome the margin of error in our best estimates of natural CO2 production, much less enough to overcome the natural variability in the process.