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Hmm, I don’t think you read what I wrote very carefully. I’m making a very specific and rather technical point about the feedback loops in the climate. Basica
by fallingfrog 3y ago
Hmm, I don’t think you read what I wrote very carefully. I’m making a very specific and rather technical point about the feedback loops in the climate.
Basically the amount of co2 that the ocean can have dissolved in it is a function of temperature and the relative co2 concentration of the air. When the temperature of the water increases it can hold less co2. Just like when soda gets warm and isn’t pressurized, it gets flat.
- lazide 3y agoYes, that is part of the (theorized) feedback loop that has happened many times. What is your point exactly?
- fallingfrog 3y agoBecause you wrote "This is definitely not the first time temperatures have risen due to direct co2 levels. " Strictly speaking that's not true. Listen man I don't really want to hold your hand and walk you through this.
- lazide 3y agoIt is definitely not the first time temperatures have risen due to direct co2 levels. Maybe you should actually read some of those studies? [https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2013.0096 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2013.009...] Some of the recent ones (< 1 million years), co2 seems likely to be a feedback, not a forcing method - but there have been many times in the past where that is not a plausible explanation at all, with levels in the 2000 ppm range.