Quote:Think back to your high school biology classes. The ones that told you about carbon dioxide. Now, what process consumes carbon dioxide and produces oxygen? What primarly does this process?
Have the natural GG emissions suddenly increased? Have the natural GG sinks suddenly decreased, and if so, why?
Now... what have we human being been systematcailly destroying for decades?
That's right. Trees. Plants. Plankton. Yes, we human beings have been fucking up the environment right good. It's not just the fact that we're producing more greenhouse gas emissions then every before, its the fact that the planets ability to handle this is being compromised as well. Its the fact that the system is being broken on both ends, and is psiraling out of control.
This is why you can't just look at part of the science. You can't just find an article saying "Ah ha! This person says greenhouse gas emissions are lower than expected! I pwned you sceience!" The climate doens't work that way. As people on the other end keep insisting, it is a huge, dynamic and complex system. You have to be able to understand it all. You have to be able to put it all together. You have to be able to view these things in context.
It's like medicine. You don't just say "well, this patient has a growth on their kidney, we'll just rip apart the body to remove it" you have to carefully monitor the entire system. It all interlocks and supports itself with a frightening degree of complexity.
And like any complex machine, it is very easy to break.
I wouldn't presume to think I knew more about how to treat my illness than a doctor, so I don't see how people can presume that they know more about climatology than climate scientists.
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