Originally posted by joe beyser…It gets washed out of the atmosphere by precipitation and by the surface of the oceans.
It gets washed out of the atmosphere by precipitation and by the surface of the oceans. It is elevated to a slight degree now because there is more co2 being generated now. Not even close to being enough to cause damage to the climate. The plants like co2 and so do I. Just look at Al Gore, he'll cheat ya!
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If I remember correctly, roughly about half gets absorbed into the ocean water that way.
Unfortunately, global warming is predicted to warm the surface water of the oceans (which is where most of the CO2 gets temporarily locked out the atmosphere) and, as it does so, CO2 would become less and less soluble in the ocean water and defuse back out the water and back into the atmosphere leading to further warming.
This would surely happen as there is recent evidence that it has done this many times in the past -the ocean will only give us partial and temporary protection from global warming.
Originally posted by Andrew Hamiltonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
[b]…It gets washed out of the atmosphere by precipitation and by the surface of the oceans.
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If I remember correctly, roughly about half gets absorbed into the ocean water that way.
Unfortunately, global warming is predicted to warm the surface water of the oceans (which is where most of the CO2 gets temporarily locked out the atmosphere) ...[text shortened]... s in the past -the ocean will only give us partial and temporary protection from global warming.[/b]
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Originally posted by joe beyserNote that this doesn’t in anyway refute what I just said -the ocean will only give us partial and temporary protection from global warming that way. As the oceans warm, they will start to release CO2 that would lead to further warming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
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