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"CO2 I believe is of consequence NOT cause of warming.". Well, if you wont accept one of the most well established facts of this subject, that the rise of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is due to our activities, there isn't much that I can say to convince you.

[Sharp Rise In Co2 Levels]

I'm not a fan of the idea that CO2 increasing warmth in the earth (but it does help) I'm more of a fan of the idea that when you clear rainforests you're releasing ancient Carbon Dioxide that is stored and by building huge cities your releasing warmth and pollution into the atmosphere.

The CO2 in trees came from the atmosphere, the CO2 in fossil fuels has been locked away, not involved in the carbon cycle for million of years. So, while chopping trees does add some CO2 (or recycles it quicker), the far greater problem is fossil fuel burning which adds CO2. It the fossil fuel CO2 that's ancient.

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FUN FACTS about CARBON DIOXIDE

Of the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from such sources as volcanoes and decaying land plants.

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Incidentally, earth's temperature and CO2 levels today have reached levels similar to a previous interglacial cycle of 120,000 - 140,000 years ago. From beginning to end this cycle lasted about 20,000 years. This is known as the Eemian Interglacial Period and the earth returned to a full-fledged ice age immediately afterward.

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Source please. I have to say it looks like pretty duff stuff to me.

Re the first point. Suppose you have a bath. Every hour you have 90 litres running in and 90 litres being pumped out. OK, the level stays the same. What happens if you add in an extra 6 litres per hour every hour? yes, it fills up.

The point is both natural emission AND sinks of CO2 are vast but effectively (until we peturbed the CO2 cycle) IN BALANCE. But we are adding extra CO2, so that now the atmosphere concentration of CO2 is a third more than it was. Try http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/03/...arf-humans.html

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And then we have the government. Gordon Brown "We are going to tax 4x4 and suvs because they are the biggest polluters." Can this guy give me a break. Firstly I mike take him seriously if he drove in a fuel efficient car. Has someone told him his big Jag pollutes alot more than quite a few 4x4 and suvs at the moment.

Global Warming. Not a day goes by without someone mentioning it. But what most people dont realise is how easily they percieve Global Warming. Take the heavy snows this month. Already I hear people going on about how can Global warming be happening. But if theres a heat wave its all across the news. GW, GW and more GW!!!

Theres one final thing I would like to add. Nobody these days are taking the number of humans into the equation of Global warming. Day in and day out 6 billion humans are pumping out CO2 and the number of humans is increasing. Wasnt there also a population boom around the 1800-1900 when the amount of CO2 started to increase.

Overall Global Warming is it a myth. Who knows, but there is little disscusion about other greenhouse gases such as methane which are alot more powerful than CO2 but then again everyone has become obessed with CO2.

There is a lot less methane - think about it!

Oh, and I'd find out the difference between weather and climate if I were you. I suggest you work your way through the answers here - http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/

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CO2 also comes from volcanos. Infact in the 19th century there was a very active volcanic period. at the time these volcanos cooled the world with there dust but its also poosible they gave out Carbon dixocide as well so when the dust cleared the earth warmed and today we have under water Volcanos going of. they give out vast amounts of carbon and heat. So its poosible the large rise in Carbon levels may be caused by natural events for which we have no control. Also in the Earths past carbon levels have been much higher than today and that did not stop freezing iceages form happing

Frankly, it's just not even possible that volcanoes are responsible for the increase in CO2. Firstly, if you do the sums they show such a claim makes no sense - http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/...t-more-co2.html , secondly you can show, by the way the isotopic signiture of atmospheric CO2 has changed, that the extra CO2 is due to our activities.

Re past CO2 concentrations, you can't compare then with now. CO2 is a climate forcing, but, if you change the continents so they alter ocean currents (as they did at times in the past) that can profoundly effect world temperatures. However, that was then, this is now, you just can compare the distant past with now.