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It is true that a warmer ocean can hold less co2. It is a cycle that feeds in on its self you see. 1# Man adds more co2 into the Atmosphere 2# the temperatures warm 3# oceans ability to hold co2 decreases=more co2 in Atmosphere.
Lets say in the 1850's the oceans could take 100 percent of the co2 of a normal interglacial period, but today they can only take about 95 percent of whats normal. So you get a 5 percent surplus and that adds every fucking year. It is a cycle. One big fucking circle. During the ice ages the colder oceans holded more co2 with the larger ice sheets sucking up some of the co2=less co2. That is why it went down to 160-180 ppm, but you go into a interglacial period in what you get is the opposite with more co2 260-300 ppm within the Atmosphere. Where can you explain the extra 100 or so ppm? After you look at each interglacial period of the past few million years.
That 100 ppm and why the oceans are not able to hold the co2 within where they always holded it within during the interglacial is the question. The earth has patterns, but we're outside of them.
As we add more co2 into the system and as the oceans become less able of sucking it ot of the Atmosphere. Both man and the oceans lost ability to absorb co2 will increase the rate of increase of the amount of co2 in the Atmosphere.
I thought the oceans were sucking up half (1/2 or 50%) the manmade CO2 output and that why the coral were dying and the oceans were turning into stomach acid?
True. But the 100 percent is of a normal interglacial period. Your right that the oceans suck up 50% on the norm, but as you increase co2 within the Atmosphere and increase the temperature within the oceans they get to the point where they can't take much more co2 and a small amount less of the full percentage doesn't get sucked. So instead it stays and compounds on its self within the Atmosphere.
The weird thing is is why are we higher then any period in the last 5 million years? What is driving the cycle if not for increase of the temperature and the addition of heat into the system. Honestly?
If the land my house is on now wasn't under 2 miles of ice 12,000 years ago, I'd think you'd have a point.
We're in a warming period.
The Glaciers have been receding for 14,000 years, I'm not losing any sleep over it. It might have something to do with that Big Yellow Thing in the Sky? Maybe there's a little more water vapor in the atmosphere?
One thing I can say with absolutely certainty it that changing the chemical composition of Earth atmosphere by adding .0003% by weight of CO2 is NOT the cause.
Here's what happens when you add CO2
"After two years, a cherry tomato plant was 16 feet tall, with 903 tomatoes on it. After six years, the same tomato plant was over 30 feet tall and had produced over 5,000 tomatoes."
That's reality.
Beyond the Physical Realm: Conditions of The Original World Ecology - Archaeology Newsflash No. 128 - Jonathan Gray