If anyone looks at the long term graphs of temperatures, or thinks hard about the decay process of dead organisms, you have to almost laugh at the concept of climate change. Its ridiculous. The fact is that the world is normally about ten degrees hotter than it is now. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old. And in the first half of its life the world was too hot for almost all life to survive. After that there was a time when ice sheets covered the earth to the equator. But after that we have swung from much hotter than we are to much cooler. Right now we are below average. But the world can get 30 degrees warmer and still stay within the range it has been in without human interference.
And when the world gets warmer as it will surely do, it releases more CO2 into the atmosphere. And as it does things get greener. We are headed to the Garden of Eden. Alligator and palm tree fossils have been found above the arctic circle. Greenland was once very green. Plants and animals both cause CO2 release. They die, or shed parts that die like leaves or fur and poop. And that part decays. And if its exposed to the air we get CO2 in some form, often methane. But if its not exposed to air its stored underground as peat or natural gas or oil or coal. All were once on the surface in living things. And we dig it up, and it comes back to the surface. Not a problem. It was here before. Now its back.
What many people don’t understand is that CO2 is being produced far faster than we can burn it. Your lawn, your tree leaves, our dog, your grandmother are all sources of CO2. As are the forests and the prairies and the rivers and oceans. We don’t create CO2 its here. We dig up trapped CO2 and release it. Maybe our species is like an earthworm or a farmer tilling his fields. We are digging up trapped carbon and making it useful again. All part of nature’s and God’s plan.
The cyclic creation and then upraising of limestone is a good example of geologic carbon cycles that man little effects.