RollingThunder
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Nope! I didn't do that at all. I never said anything about that at all. You are very delusional. The oceans absorb CO2 from any source. So what? You have no point.You make it sound like the oceans NEVER eat Man Made CO2 -- only NATURAL CO2. Like they're some kind of annoying vegan..Are you really so clueless that you don't realize that EVERYBODY KNOWS that the yearly cycle of natural carbon dioxide emissions and uptake involves much more total CO2 than humananity's emissions? So what? The natural emissions are all balanced and offset by the uptake and sequestration processes. No net total increase. Natural pre-industrial CO2 levels were pretty stable at about 280ppm over the entire Holocene.Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Record...
Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit Record, Report Says
NOV. 10, 2015 - Global concentrations of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million this past spring for the first time, breaching a symbolic barrier set by climate scientists and policy makers, according to a report released Monday.
Concentrations of other greenhouse gases produced from human activities, such as methane and nitrous oxide, also reached records in 2014, the World Meteorological Organization announced in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The report is one of several measurements made by different climate agencies to address the state of greenhouse gases in advance of the Paris Climate Summit. “This evidence shows us that the concentrations are increasing, and they are increasing with increasing rates,” said Oksana Tarasova, chief of the W.M.O.’s Atmospheric Environment Research Division. “This calls for urgent and very strong actions to limit the emission of those greenhouse gasses.”
A coal burning power plant in Colstrip, Mont.
In 2014, the average global atmospheric carbon dioxide level rose to 397.7 parts per million, substantially higher than the 278 parts per million floating in the atmosphere during preindustrial time, or before 1750. The researchers reported that the annual average is expected to pass 400 parts per million in 2016. But Dr. Tarasova noted that exceeding the 400 mark does not denote an immediate catastrophe. “There is nothing magic about 400, it’s nothing better than 399 or 401,” she said. “This is like our obligation to ourselves, we’d like to not go over 400. It’s symbolic.” She said that surpassing the threshold “only shows that our commitments are not there.”
In 2014, methane in the air increased by nine parts per billion over 2013, which represented two and a half times its preindustrial levels. Nitrous oxide reached 1.1 parts per billion more than its levels in 2013, an increase of 20 percent from its preindustrial levels, according to the findings. The report also noted interactions between greenhouse gas emissions and water vapor in the atmosphere. Humans produce carbon dioxide that heats up Earth’s surface, which then heats up the atmosphere.
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Are any of those factories are located in the equatorial rain forest?
Excess CO2, beyond what can be removed by natural processes, lingers a long time and accumulates in the atmosphere.
It is the un-natural emissions, hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2 that mankind has produced by burning fossil fuels, that are disrupting the natural balance and increasing atmospheric and oceanic CO2 levels (atmospheric levels are up to over 400ppm now, which is 43% higher just so far over the natural, normal pre-industrial levels, and still rising fast).