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Anyone want to predict a downside to increased co2?
One scientifically proven result is acidification
Onvacation saysAnyone want to predict a downside to increased co2?
One scientifically proven result is acidification of oceans, which is among the causes for coral bleaching.
Nothing is ever just positive or negative.
But but... Can you really call it acidification until it gets below pH of 7?
But The Narrative is a religion, not science.
One scientifically proven result is acidification of oceans, which is among the causes for coral bleaching.
You do know that the ocean is alkaline? Don'tcha?
The current ph of the ocean is 8.1. Not exactly acidic.
But The Narrative is a religion, not science. And The Narrative says that all beings lived in peace and harmony with no predators or prey for aeons until Evil Cis White Men ejaculated all over the virgin planet. And if you dare to reply with rational argument, you're a sexist racist homophobe and must be fired, blacklisted, #metoo'd, and excluded from contributing to open source software.
pH is going down due to increase of [CO2]
How much has the pH gone down due to manmade co2 and over what time period?
The cult of climate change
CO2 was several times what it is today, with oxygen at 10% and not ~20%, and the dinosaurs were doing just dandy. Average temp 30C and no ice caps.
You sound quite knowledgeable.
Not my field, so I am not 100% sure, but there is one significant other variable - Sun luminosity. In a billion years, our descendants will be boiled because Sun intensity increases.
From the Permian to Jurassic era, the Earth was over 1500ppm CO2, almost 3000ppm CO2. Largest land creatures in Earth history, plenty of trees.
I think everybody can guess why Global Warming Alarmists only show the last few thousand years, and not the entire Earth's History in context.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.
Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect, said co-author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. “The second most important driver is nitrogen, at 9 percent. So we see what an outsized role CO2 plays in this process.”
Every year, about half of the 10 billion tons of carbon emitted into the atmosphere from human activities remains temporarily stored, in about equal parts, in the oceans and plants.