re: #286 last turnip

All we are doing, in burning fossil fuels, is releasing the carbon back into the earth’s atmosphere where it came from in the first place. All the carbon fuels we burn were created by plants who take in Carbon and Water, create carbohydrates, and release oxygen. Since all the carbohydrate derivatives we are burning were created by plants, using carbon from the atmosphere, we are just, slowly, putting a little bit of it back each day. If all organic matter on the earth were to be urned/oxidized, then we will have arrived back at the carbon levels that were in the earth’s atmosphere before life began. Who is to say which level of atmospheric concentration is “right” given the full range of concentrations that have been in our atmosphere since forever. That said, I favor nuclear power. Clean. French. Nice.

Rubbish again, if we are burning fossil fuels, we are clearly taking it out of the ground where it had been sequestered for eons - and adding that on top of the present equilibrium.

It is true that in the distant past there was more CO2 in the atmosphere. It is also true that lots of where we live now was underwater.

How is it possible for you to say such silly things with a straight face? Do you have even the most basic understanding of what you are talking about, or do you prefer to just blather what you heard from propagandists and other morons?