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TexasProgresive

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6. marylandblue has the right of it.

Reply to former9thward (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 12, 2017, 07:24 PM

Sep 2017

The natural sources of CO2 are part of a natural cycle. Animals exhale CO2 Green plants during daylight inhale CO2 and convert it into food and structure. When the plant dies or is eaten the carbon is released. It is the cycle of life. Some carbon that has been sequestered for eons in permafrost it being released as a result of climate change. All that carbon that is in fossil fuels was once part of the natural cycle, but I don't think we could live if all that CO2 were back in the atmosphere. Besides contributing to warming it would bind up a whole lot of oxygen.

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1912 article about coal and climate [View all] underpants Sep 2017 OP

Science and math. PdxSean Sep 2017 #1

Oxygen combines with carbon to make carbon dioxide marylandblue Sep 2017 #2

Danke'! PdxSean Sep 2017 #3

Specifically, 12 tons of carbon combine with 32 tons of O2 to form 44 tons of CO2. eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #10

That's fine but it pales with natural sources of carbon dioxide. former9thward Sep 2017 #4

Natural sources were in equilibrium with natural sinks marylandblue Sep 2017 #5

So the 800 billion tons was perfect. former9thward Sep 2017 #9

Yes the 800 billion tons was perfect marylandblue Sep 2017 #12

..and we've destroyed many of the sinks. roamer65 Sep 2017 #13

marylandblue has the right of it. TexasProgresive Sep 2017 #6

Fake News Takket Sep 2017 #7

Snopes notes this is true and has the Popular Mechanics article from 1912 this one was based on. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2017 #8

Thanks ! nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #11

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