One of these days we’ll be “recycling” all our CO2 so well that we won’t have any CO2 in the atmosphere at all. Huzzah!
Of course, no one mentions the fact that... plants need CO2 to photosynthesize, or that CO2 contributes roughly 12% of the greenhouse effect and that completely removing it from the atmosphere would likely dump us into a very severe ice age.
But what do I know.
I know - I am always amazed that the question never arises "What if in our attempt to 'cure' global warming we actually bring on the next ice age?"
(not that we could anyway - but assuming the false premise that we can do anything to control global climate ..)
It seems to me that human history of trying to "fix" nature almost inevitably results in a cure worse than the disease because we really don't have much of a clue about how it all works.
But what do I know.
Bwa-- hahahah! Good one! Driving home late the other night I was listening good ol' reliable traveling companion Kook to Kook AM (always entertaining radio! No wonder the truckers love it!), and the host mentioned that the recent phenomenon of higher temperatures of lakes in Yellowstone killing the fish, is being attributed to "global warming." My first thought was, "Uh-oh, if the rise in lake temperatures is true." Yellowstone is smack dab in the middle of a festering live zit of fire (so to speak) on the planet's surface, and if the caldera beneath erupts again ... actually, it's when the caldera beneath next erupts ... we're talking some real pretty sh&&. As in the entire continent pretty much environmentally wiped out. Dead and gone.
To his credit, the host mentioned the caldera. I hope he has the sense to put what's known about geology into perspective. In the context of truth, the man-caused global warming movement is laughably quaint. I am flummoxed as to why that is some kind of secret.
Doesn't a lot of CO2 come from the oceans? If that's the case, then what??