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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187702)5/30/2006 2:16:23 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"Theoretically speaking, the levels of CO2 are reflective of a balance of CO2 production and C02 sequestration. Should one of those levels get out of balance, then there should be a return to some level of equilibrium. N'est Pas??"

In the long run. That's how we got to the pre-industrial balance point. Short term, here isn't a balance cuz we are intervening and upsetting it.
That was a process over millions of years, tho. Now we've taken the accumulated carbon load of millions of years of organisms and roughly dumped half of it back onto the planet
in the span of 250 years. That's too fast for biologic/geologic processes to cope with. They don't operate on the same time scale we do.
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