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Originally Posted by sounding
We have been warming ever since leaving the Little Ice Age -- at about the year 1800 -- and accordingly as the oceans warm also do they release CO2 ... and we are still thawing out from that Little Ice Age. So, how much of today's increasing CO2 is "man-made" versus thawing-made?
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To answer the question, "how much of the increasing CO2 is man-made, and how much is thawing-made?"........I could NOT answer. But, somewhere there MIGHT (?) be a Climate Scientist that has made that calculation. What I can determine IS that most scientists are WARNING that we have Global Warming and the natural CO2 balance has been thrown off by MAN starting in the Industrial Revolution. The oceans can NO LONGER absorb the excess CO2. And a tipping point may have been reached. This is OBSERVABLE in the VANISHING GLACIERS and DYING coral reefs. Part of the threat to the CO2 cycle is exemplified by the Tundra in Russia that NO LONGER is covered with ice and is self-combusting, which is throwing stored-up CO2 into the atmosphere.
All that I am saying is that scientists are concerned/worried and that concerns me!