so the more forests we tear down the better the models will be 

So trees fart.

One could try to explain that a short-term Carbon cycle is nothing like the problem of burning stuff that took millions of years to lay down in only a century or two ... but then again ... a waste of time against the brain-dead AGW deniers. 

lee wrote on Apr 8^th, 2019 at 10:52pm:


But burning fossil fuels doesn't according to you? 

Anthropogenic CO₂ emissions

See also: radiative forcing, List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions, and Global warming


While CO₂ absorption and release is always happening as a result of natural processes, the recent rise in CO₂ levels in the atmosphere is known to be mainly due to human (anthropogenic) activity.[80]

There are four ways human activity, especially fossil fuel burning, is known to have caused the rapid increase in atmospheric CO₂ over the last few centuries. 1) Various national statistics accounting for fossil fuel consumption, combined with knowledge of how much atmospheric CO₂ is produced per unit of fossil fuel (e.g. liter of gasoline).[81] 2) By examining the ratio of various carbon isotopes in the atmosphere.[80]

The burning of long-buried fossil fuels releases CO₂ containing carbon of different isotopic ratios to those of living plants, enabling distinction between natural and human-caused contributions to CO₂ concentration. 3) Higher atmospheric CO₂ concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere, where most of the world's population lives (and emissions originate from), compared to the southern hemisphere.

This difference has increased as anthropogenic emissions have increased.[82] 4) Atmospheric O₂ levels are decreasing in Earth's atmosphere as it reacts with the carbon in fossil fuels to form CO₂.[83]

Burning fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas is the leading cause of increased anthropogenic CO₂; deforestation is the second major cause. In 2010, 9.14 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC, equivalent to 33.5 gigatonnes of CO₂ or about 4.3 ppm in Earth's atmosphere) were released from fossil fuels and cement production worldwide, compared to 6.15 GtC in 1990.[84] In addition, land use change contributed 0.87 GtC in 2010, compared to 1.45 GtC in 1990.[84]

In 1997, human-caused Indonesian peat fires were estimated to have released between 13% and 40% of the average carbon emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels around the world in a single year.[85][86][87] In the period 1751 to 1900, about 12 GtC were released as CO₂ to the atmosphere from burning of fossil fuels, whereas from 1901 to 2013 the figure was about 380 GtC.[88]

Anthropogenic carbon emissions exceed the amount that can be taken up or balanced out by natural sinks.[89] As a result, carbon dioxide has gradually accumulated in the atmosphere, and as of 2013, its concentration is almost 43% above pre-industrial levels.[13][14] Various techniques have been proposed for removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in carbon dioxide sinks. Currently about half of the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels is not absorbed by vegetation and the oceans and remains in the atmosphere.[90]

Excess CO₂ emitted since the pre-industrial era is projected to remain in the atmosphere for centuries to millennia,[91] even after emissions stop. Even if human carbon dioxide emissions were to completely cease, atmospheric temperatures are not expected to decrease significantly for thousands of years.[92]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere

Direct CO2 Measurements 1958-2009

Burning 1 Ton of Coal makes 2.86 Tons of Carbon Dioxide

C + O₂ = (greenhouse gas) 

BAD

CO₂ - C = (non-greenhouse gas)

GOOD

Captain Nemo wrote on Apr 9^th, 2019 at 1:25pm:

im sorry Nemo but how can 1 ton of coal make 2.86 tons of CO2...…. maybe 2.86 cubic metres of CO2