Jovial Monk wrote on May 2
nd, 2017 at 12:16pm:
And you have outsourced your thinking to an obviously lying charlatan. The carbon cycle emits and absorbs carbon on a yearly cycle. Anthropogenic carbon cannot all be stored and that is why atmospheric CO2 has increased from 280ppm in early 1800s to 410ppm now (a 4% increase according to Lees but there you go.)
As regards previously higher CO2 levels, I did publish long extracts from a paper that discussed all that. Not my fault you didn’t read it. Ajax didn’t read it either tho it would have explained things to him. Lees just tried to find fault and missed. Go back and read it, it will take a while to read and understand but it is worth it.
As usual JV you're talking sh!t.
If that was the case the annual average rise of CO2 in the atmosphere would track manmade emission, but it doesn't.
Notice the sharp rise in fossil fuel CO2 emissions after 2000.
After 2000 fossil fuel emissions were 3 times the amount of fossil fuel emissions in the prior decade to 2000, that is 3 times as much fossil fuel emission went into our atmosphere after 2000 than the decade before 2000.
But the average yearly increase after 2000 just like the decade prior to 2000, average increase in CO2 remains more or less steady at 2.1ppm per year.
Fossil fuel CO2 emissions at 2.3% of the total CO2 natural emissions are insignificant and get lost in the noise.
That's why the average yearly increase of CO2 has remained steady at 2.1ppm per year even though fossil fuel emissions have shot through the roof.
Yes fossil fuels emissions contribute but the contribution is small at 2.3% of the total amount of natural CO2 that is emitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZqWMEpyUM