The human industrial revolution has thrown the earth's natural balancing act out of whack.
FOOL!! How do you think those hydrocarbon deposits were formed in the first place?
CO2 was extracted from the atmosphere by plant life, usually a peat bog (lots of water) which then died, accumulated, and under heat and pressure became those HUGE COAL SEAMS that we've discovered.
Oil deposits were likely ( formed by layers of planktonic life, deposited in the same manner as those peat bogs.
en.wikipedia.org
That means that ALL OF THE CURRENT FOSSIL FUEL DEPOSITS USED TO BE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 at some point.. and it was all sequestered, which limited floral plant life's ability to grow.
I've never stated that man's release of CO2 isn't a contributing factor.. But I'll be damned if I'm going to accept the premise that somehow mankind is more powerful than the existing forces of nature.
The eruption of Krakatoa, alone, had more of an impact than what we've done:
Sea levels would have risen higher and ocean temperatures would have been warmer in the 20th century if the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia had not erupted in 1883, scientists said on Wednesday.
The impact of the eruption that spewed molten rock and sulfate aerosols into the atmosphere was felt for decades -- much longer than previously thought.
"It appears as though with a very large eruption the effect can last for many decades and possibly as long as a century," said Peter Gleckler, a climatologist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Sea levels rise when ocean temperatures are warmer and recede when they cool. Volcanoes release aerosols and dust that block sunlight and cause the ocean surface to cool which can offset, at least temporarily, sea level rises caused by increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
redorbit.com
And it's clear for humanity to find an alternative to fossil fuels. But since it's not very likely that humanity is going to quickly give up those fuels due to alternatives being more expensive, we'd better form "Plan B" and decide what we're willing to do to geo-engineer the planet and return that CO2 back to sequestration.
Hence my focus on phytoplankton.. It's the ONLY significant means by which CO2 can be sequestered, especially in light of deforestation. And it's going to require human intervention to make it happen.
But what I fear is that nothing we do will alter a dramatic climate change. What may be occurring is possibly a rebound out of the Little Ice Age..
Then again, we might be seeing the peak of the temperature rise, if the Maunder minimum theory holds true and we're in for a period of minimal sunspot activity.
There's far too much that we don't understand about climate change. But trying to restructure our entire economy into using alternative fuels that are much more expensive is certainly not the solution. All that will do is provide our economic rivals the ability to take advantage.
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