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Of course the climate is changing it never does anything but. The question we are facing is not whether or not it's changing but whether we are causing it to change more rapidly than it has in the past. There are two major bones of contention here and I dare say nobody has enough expertise to select one over the other.I for one believe that it is. I've believed this for a long time, but I found that a documentary called "An Inconvenient Truth", which features for Vice President Al Gore prominently, was very persuasive. I know there are those who believe that the Climate isn't changing as well, including some people like James Corbett, who I respect immensely for his work on other subjects, but we simply don't agree when it comes to climate. Recently, a poster in another thread of mine expressed his belief that the climate isn't changing so I thought it might be good to create this thread and see where it goes. I ask that people support any assertions that haven't already been made by another poster with at least one link.
1.) Are we retaining more heat because we're producing more carbon dioxide? 2.) Are we producing more carbon dioxide because we are retaining more heat? You do see the dilemma here yes?
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The ocean's CO2 dissolution tolerance is a direct function of the water temperature. Since the world's ocean's form the largest CO2 sink on the planet even a slight change of temperature in some of those bodies would release trillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Are we very certain that it is not the heat creating the excess CO2 rather than the other way around? I'm not sure that we can nail that one down 100%. I will add a link to this shortly.
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