re: #195 Buck

Well, you were using the term large… but it would matter what thefirst number was. A 35% increase in my salary would be large… but a 35% increase in my daughters allowance would be small.

The normal atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is 0.038%. Is 135% of 0.038% a lot? I don’t know. It might be if it was in my room… but on a planetary scale?… I mean it is a really big planet…maybe that increase is good for the forests, and plants… and they thrive and automatically control it. Crazier stuff has happened in Nature…

Maybe there have been fluctuations like that for millions of years.

Anyway… I am just saying things like “humans have been producing large a mounts of C02 lately…” might be a bit vague… Large amounts…7 tons, you might want to take more time to compose yourself. If you don’t get an answer it just might be because the question is too open..

Again, I understand. Just making a suggestion to help you out.

I’ll bare that in mind.

Further more here would be the next part of my argument.

1) Do we see any reason to suspect that this trend of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is going to stop?

2) At what levels does it become dangerous, and I think Charles did a pretty good post on that a while back…