his quote: > The idea of man-made climate change is silly. Here are a few reasons why: The Gulf of Mexico sends more CO2 (the hobgoblin of choice for climate alarmists) into the atmosphere on its own every year than all of human civilization. If you consider how much of the planet is covered by oceans and compare that CO2 output to our own on a pie graph, our contribution would look like a straight line drawn with a very fine-tipped pen. The world's ecosystem consumes as much CO2 as it can touch. More CO2 means trees grow larger and faster, therefore expanding their capability to process it. Also, trees are capable of processing far more CO2 than they currently have access to, so it would require a massive increase from current levels for the existing forests of the world to notice a change. The earth underwent periods of warming and cooling in ancient times, well before human civilization had developed, and some of those periods were more severe than any we've seen in modern times. The earth's climate is driven by energy, not the kinds of molecules we have floating around us. All of the planet's energy originally came from the sun. It provides heat. It nourishes plant life. It infuses matter with energy, allowing it to exist in fluid and gaseous states. The sun fluctuates, and every time it does, we feel it in our weather. Climate science is used as a political tool, and therefore cannot be trusted, especially after UN researchers were caught red-handed falsifying data. I'm in the southern US, near the edge of the temperate zone where winters are usually somewhat mild. This year, winter weather for my area ended in April and began again in November. If the planet is warming, I sure can't tell.on-climate-change
Does the gulf of mexico really have an output of co2 that is greater than all of human civilization?
Yes. Your average blogger knows more about climate science than actual climate scientists.
Cameron Ward
This is satire, right?
Matthew Roberts
>HUUR WHAT IS A EQUILIBRIUM Please fuck off and don't return.
Evan Thomas
>The world's ecosystem consumes as much CO2 as it can touch. If this is true then why have CO2 levels in the atmosphere risen so much? and so rapidly?
Ian Williams
>Does the gulf of mexico really have an output of co2 that is greater than all of human civilization?
Not true. See pic related for the amount of ocean atmosphere CO2 flux. Some part of the ocean is net source to the atmosphere and some are net sink to the atmosphere. The atmosphere ocean exchange of CO2 is governed by Henry's Law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry's_law
In places where ocean productivity is high, like the equatorial pacific there's a lot of DIC (dissolved organic carbon) and the ocean is supersaturated with C with respect to the atmosphere, hence it'll offgas CO2 into the atmosphere.
In places where ocean is cold (cold water hold more gas, just like cold coke is fizzy while warm coke is flat) and not a lot of productivity like the Arctic ocean and Southern Ocean, CO2 dissolves into the ocean because the atmosphere is supersaturated in CO2 with respect to the ocean.
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Nolan Johnson
The claim that gulf of mexico really have an output of co2 that is greater than all of human civilization is absolutely not true. Gulf of mexico as you can see is not even the hotspot for CO2 outgassing.
Looking at one particular area of the ocean is dumb because the ocean is interconnected system. Overall, the ocean has been NET SINK of CO2. We pumped so much CO2 into the atmosphere that the atmosphere is supersaturated in CO2 with respect to the ocean, so the ocean will equilibrate by taking more CO2. When you take more dissolved CO2, you form bicarbonate (just like carbonated drinks) and you reduce the pH of the ocean, hence the term "ocean acidification."
Finally, the amount of ocean flux is nowhere near the amount of anthropogenic flux. We pump ~240 Petagram C per year to the atmosphere where the ocean TAKES (not release) about 2.3 Pg C.
Bronyguy is a moron
Isaac Russell
Did you read your own picture? it says the total from fossil fuels is 7.8+/-0.6 and the total from respiration and fire is 118.7
This would imply that fires and breathing contribute over 100x more CO2 to the atmosphere than human factories and fossil fuels do.
Blake Butler
Its only counting the factories that report their CO2 output dumbass. There could be thousands of kg of carbon that aren't being reported but still released into the atmosphere.
