from Al Fin
the blog entry also talks about converting CO2 into non-gaseous forms of carbon, and other climate controlling technologies that could be developed. personally I don't think we should screw with Mother Nature any more than we are already until we know WAY more about climate systems.
No scientist here. Not even close. However, a student of the obvious.
When CO2 was at its most abundant, what happened? Plant life that survived by consuming CO2 and exhausting O. When O became abundant, what happened? Animal life that consumed O and exhausted CO2.
Our atmosphere is at historically low levels of CO2 right now and the current increasing level should help the growth of plants as should the increasing temperatures which is good since we have a bunch of relatively large animals, us, waking up hungry every morning.
As the temperature bands continue to move north, the farming in the previously frozen tundra areas should start to yield crops and those that already yield should be harvested twice per year.
Both rising temperatures and the increased CO2 are very nearly providential miracles given the rising global population.
The other glaringly obvious correlation shown in this chart is that temperature changes before CO2. This fact has been confirmed & there is a consensus on the fact that Temperature Change Leads CO2 Change by 800 Years.
