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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Eric who wrote (78196)7/11/2017 12:19:22 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 86356
 
We know from Antactic ice cores that CO2 has risen and fallen and has lagged warming and cooling cycles. We know from the La Brea tar pits that trees during the last ice age were starved for CO2. A little lower and land plants and animals would've died out.

Henry's Law explains this quite well. As the earth and its oceans cooled, increasing amounts of CO2 were absorbed by the oceans at the expense of the atmosphere. And when the earth and it's oceans warmed again, the oceans outgassed CO2. If the earth warms in the future, we should expect more of the same.

You keep thinking the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere determines the absorption of CO2 in the oceans, but history tells us the atmosphere's CO2 level has varied widely. Clearly the overall warmth of the earth is the dominant factor.



Henry's Law
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