What’s counter intuitive about it? The largest source and sink of CO2 is the oceans. Cool them down and they absorb gas, warm them up and they release it. They have a huge thermal mass and only respond slowly to warming and cooling.
>> Cool them down and they absorb gas, warm them up and they release it.
But on a 700 year cycle as I understand aruannan’s post?
It would then seem that all of our weather is buffered by the oceans including hurricanes, and it would be virtually impossible to directly affect the climate in our lifetime, or the next. Are we seeing hurricanes that are the result of conditions from centuries ago?
And, the reason the oceans warm and cool is that big flaming ball in the sky, the output of which is constantly varying.....