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Originally Posted by richardda1st
This quiz is simplistic nonsense.
No one can be sure what the outcome will be, but:
1. Are we adding an ever increasing amount of CO2 to what is naturally occurring?
2. Is CO2 a good gas to breath.
3. Are the forests being reduced at an ever increasing rate.
4. Do the forests reduce CO2 gas from the air.
5. Does the CO2 gas eventually gets pushed up into a layer high in our atmospher and held there to accumulate.
6. Will a thick layer of CO2 surrounding our planet be a good thing.
I'm not sure what the answers are, maybe someone with some real scientific understanding can answer my questions for me.
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These are good questions the simple answer to each is
1. Yes we are adding a small amount of CO2 but the reason is more to do with the rise in average temperatures than what we create from burning fossil fuels.
2. CO2 is non poisonous CO is. It was once used as a revival gas in cases of lost conciousness to stimulate breathing.
3. Yes forests are being reduced which is a bad thing but if they are replaced with quick growing agriculture the conversion of CO2 back into C and O2 will actually be faster. (This is the carbon cycle which is completely ignored by the climate change lobby)
4. Yes forests remove CO2 and give off O2 but faster growing vegetation does it quicker.
5. CO2 is heavier than air so it will always tend to come down to the ground where it is absorbed mainly by sea water. However the sea water will give up much of the absorbed CO2 if its average temperature rises.
6. That is a good question There is not enough CO2 to do this even if all the carbon on earth was burnt to form CO2 it would still be insignificant compared to other gases.
The climate change lobby uses statistics to try to prove its point. They say that CO2 is causing the rise in temperature but the same statistics can be used to show the rise in temperature creates the increase in CO2.
The one thing that is sure is that CO2 is absolutely insignificant as a greenhouse gas in our atmosphere when compared to other gases, mainly water vapour.
Barry