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Originally Posted by Damien
Yes. So people keep saying. That is missing out that in addition to the CO2 produced in warming periods we are adding bucket loads of our own and serious deforestation has reduced the planets natural coping mechanism.
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It is the oceans that remove the most amount of CO2.
What gets rid of CO2 more, 100m2 of Rainforest or 100m2 of crops???????????
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Originally Posted by Earl of Bronze
And lets not forget the evidence that the current upward trend in temperatures, is causing the permafrost to retreat all across the northern hemisphere. As the permafrost retreats, more and more previously frozen dead plant matter gets the chance to rot and all the resultant methane (21 times more efficient a greenhouse gas than CO2) into the atmosphere.
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Or you could argue that it frees up previously frozen ground to ground where plants can now grow thereby reducing CO2?
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The thing is now, is that it has grown beyond science into a psuedo-religion. Were you are branded either a "believer" or "non-believer".
As I have always maintained, reducing CO2 is good thing. But are we responsible for Global Warming or Climate Change???? show me compelling irrefutible evidence and will consider it, but there is none.
Certainly our actions here in the UK are neglible on the global issue, yet we will be taxed to the 'nth degree.
We will be slowed down on motorways,
we will have to use light bulbs that cost 36 times more than the old ones (and whose manufacturing costs, processess and future environmental issues appear to have been swept away)
the list is exhaustive.