15 active volcanos around the world, I'm sure has more impact on C02 emissions than civilization ever has.Human activities emit 60 or more times the amount of carbon dioxide released by volcanoes each year. Large, violent eruptions may match the rate of human emissions for the few hours that they last, but they are too rare and fleeting to rival humanity’s annual emissions.
....thanks phaster
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Plants thrive in high CO2 environments anyway, so what is the problem?Plant scientists have observed that when levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their leaves.
And since human activity is raising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, thick-leafed plants appear to be in our future.
But the consequences of this physiological response go far beyond heftier leaves on many plants. Two University of Washington scientists have discovered that plants with thicker leaves may exacerbate the effects of climate change because they would be less efficient in sequestering atmospheric carbon, a fact that climate change models to date have not taken into account.
In a paper published online Oct. 1 by the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, the researchers report that, when they incorporated this information into global climate models under the high atmospheric carbon dioxide levels expected later this century, the global “carbon sink” contributed by plants was less productive — leaving about 5.8 extra petagrams, or 6.39 billion tons, of carbon in the atmosphere per year. Those levels are similar to the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere each year due to human-generated fossil fuel emissions — 8 petagrams, or 8.8 billion tons.
“Plants are flexible and respond to different environmental conditions,” said senior author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and biology. “But until now, no one had tried to quantify how this type of response to climate change will alter the impact that plants have on our planet.”
2nd talking point dismissed by science.....
The sea levels are normally much higher then present anyway. We just happen to be in a inter-glacial period now, where sea levels are below normal levels of geologic time.Hmmm an inter-glacial period, where less water is locked up in ice as opposed to a glacial period where more water would be locked up in ice and sea levels would be lower.....
so the argument falls apart on it's face
BTW we live in buildings and have large amounts of infrastructure that would be very threatened by sea level rise of just a meter or two, and not just the USA though cities like Houston, Oakland, Miami, Washington DC, New Orleans, Boston are threatened by sea level rise, So is Shanghai China, London, Mumbai India, Osaka Japan, Jakarta Indonesia, Dhaka, Guangzhou China, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, Hong Kong, Manila Philippines, Melbourne Australia, Rotterdam, Tokyo Japan, Venice Italy, Barcelona Spain, Istanbul Turkey, Dublin Ireland, Alexandria Egypt, Tel Aviv and Haifa Israel, Guangzhou China, just to name a few. Yer argument doesn't take into account the massive efforts that will be needed to solve the problems EVERYONE of these and hundreds of other cities and towns face.
All this science comes from the same funded operations like foundations and all that malarkey controlled by Wall Street operations . Got actual proof that ain't pulled from yer-anus? yer forgetting much of the science is being done OUTSIDE the USA, and lots has been done long before wall street worried about how the enviroment effects their bottom line;
IE that CO2 is a greenhouse gas,
In 1862, John Tyndall discovered that certain gases (water and carbon dioxide) help trap heat from escaping the atmosphere. Later, in 1895, Swedish Chemist Svante Arrhenius observed the infrared-absorbing properties of carbon dioxide and water molecules.
kinda blows a planet sized hole in yer rant eh?
Its just designed to make people think there is scarcity to keep prices high for everything we buy. If you took all the people on earth it wouldn't even fill up the size of Texas, but we are told the world is over-populated and all that jazz .Because it isn't the 2 square foot area your body occupies but the amount of arable land for food, and the amounts of natural resources, a large amount non-renewable that are used by an ever growing population. The ever increasing amounts of not just green house gasses but everything dumped into the environment that we keep changing, until we currently exist on a planet that is outside the environmental conditions that the entire human race has ever seen. The planet cannot support the amount of people that exist with out massive influxes of energy, currently coming from the ever decreasing stocks of fossil fuels. Given the fact we try to burn increasing amounts, and the size of new discoveries are shrinking, it doesn't take a genius to see at some point the supply will fail to keep up with demand. that is BTW just for energy, nothing about the dwindling fresh water we depend on for out every increasing appetites because of increasing population. The rate of desertification in China is around 900 square miles a year, an area nearly the size of Rhode Island, with an area the size of New Jersey becoming desert every five years. That is with an 1.43 Billion mouths to feed.... In the US the Ogallala Aquifer underlying portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas) is shrinking at an ever increasing rate. Farmers rely on it for irrigation and many people around it rely on it for ground water. Parts in New Mexico. Colorado and Kansas have essentially run dry..... with rainfall replenishment never coming close to extraction each year .... might be a problem for all those farmers we depend on for grains and cattle etc.
Your simplistic rant falls apart upon even a rudimentary inspection like I did ....
Also we are facing the sixth great extinction, that is almost entirely the result of trying to fit 7.5 billion people on a planet and denying the rest of the earths species the places they need the thrive.