re: #693 Spare O’Lake

Acually it IS a US DOE report.
Please have a look at Table 3 at p.27 of the pdf file and then get back to me.
[Link: www.eia.doe.gov…]
Thanks.

Wow you really misread that table - or at least waht it means.

Obviously there was CO2 in the atmosphere before human industrialization. It is not that there is only 3% of CO2 caused by human activities, but rather, through the decade of the 90’s we increased the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by about 3%.

You could also have looked at table two.

Pre-industrial (1750) Atmospheric Concentration. . 278
1998 Atmospheric Concentration … 365
Average Annual Change, 1990-1999 … 1.5a
Atmospheric Lifetime (Years) … 50–200b

Notice that in 100 years, we have caused a nearly 50% increase in total CO2.

What happened was you fell for someone who utterly cherry picked and took something out of context in order to say the exact opposite of what the report said. What bothers me about you is that you didn’t take the time to look at table two, or even understand what table three was saying before you brought it - as if there really were some sort of question.

This was the 2007 report. It’s a fine report.

It has also since been updated.

Check it out:

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