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Pandonodrim (September 7, 2008 at 5:51 am)
Neither, a single celled organism came first.
WiTeBoi (September 7, 2008 at 3:54 am)
"which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
xXAkridXx (August 22, 2008 at 7:31 pm)
"I really don't understand why you can't grasp this. There is nothing to suggest higher temp "causes" more CO2."
Co2 lags behind Temp on charts. Oceans can't store gases as well when it is warmer. So when the temp goes up, guess what? Wait for it.... The oceans release CO2, OMGZ! Where does the CO2 originally come from? Many natural sources but certainly not all from man. By the way I never said higher temp make more CO2 in the world, I said it puts more in the atmosphere.
Pandonodrim (August 22, 2008 at 2:50 pm)
Man, you really just can't grasp this easy connection can you? An increase in temperature doesn't "magically" increase levels of CO2 - the CO2 has to come from somewhere.
You admit CO2 is a greenhouse gas and thus will affect a rise in global temperature - and we are releasing billions of tons of it every year that hasn't been present in the ecosystem for millions of years.
I really don't understand why you can't grasp this. There is nothing to suggest higher temp "causes" more CO2.
xXAkridXx (August 22, 2008 at 6:07 am)
All you can show is that there gets to be more CO2 when it's hot.
xXAkridXx (August 22, 2008 at 5:48 am)
Yeah just goes to show how little anyone knows so far. That's why I'm not drawing conclusions like you are.
xXAkridXx (August 22, 2008 at 5:47 am)
because it looks like it works the other way around, The CO2 is caused by Temp.
Pandonodrim (August 22, 2008 at 5:41 am)
Think of it this way - that article talks about the "air-sea" balance. As CO2 levels increase in the atmosphere, the oceans absorb more (becoming more acidic as I've already stated). This is common in all systems - all will tend toward equilibrium and entropy.
The oceans then release more CO2 because they have more CO2 dissolved in them. This CO2 is a mean increase over all systems - and it's source is the anthropogenic burning of fossil fuels. There is no other possible source.
Pandonodrim (August 22, 2008 at 5:36 am)
From the same EXACT article you referenced:
"The findings have two significant implications: they provide further understanding of past and future variability of atmospheric CO2; and they reveal that one side of the biological divide could be affected by climate change or human intervention without altering the other side.
Pandonodrim (August 22, 2008 at 5:31 am)
You understand that CO2 is a greenhouse gas.
You understand that greenhouse gases affect global temperature - that with more greenhouse gases you'll get a higher global temperature.
You understand that the ocean is part of the carbon cycle (as it is part of almost all other biosphere cycles, along with the atmosphere).
Why then cannot you grasp the very simple idea that when you release more CO2 into the ecosystem (from fossil fuels) that it will unbalance this towards a warming trend? |
