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Earth’s CO2 Levels Are at Their Highest Levels in More Than 10 Million Years

Our planet is changing at a record pace, in fact experts say that human caused climate change has even forced Earth into another extinction event. That is largely due to the burning of fossil fuels and changes in the chemical makeup of our air and experts now say our atmosphere has more CO2 now than it has for millions of years.

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experts now say our atmosphere has more CO2 now than it has for millions of years.

Experts in what?
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4,600,000,000 years (Age of the Earth.)
     10,000,000 years (What they are howling about.)

...or roughly 1/5 of 1% of the planet's history.
This reeks of cherry picking the data set.
It's easy to be off the mark with such a short sight radius.

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so plant more trees
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more people = more CO2

Plant more trees or start industrial culling of the human herd.

BTW, what are they using for hysterical historical data as a scientific control or base measurement?  Is it real data or some computer simulation garbage from a Radio Shack TRS-80?
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so plant more trees
Plant more Gaia worshippers

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more people = more CO2

Plant more trees or start industrial culling of the human herd.

BTW, what are they using for hysterical historical data as a scientific control or base measurement?  Is it real data or some computer simulation garbage from a Radio Shack TRS-80?

Trees plant themselves, no need to plant trees. And birth control is doing a fine job of culling the human herd.

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so plant more trees

Algae converts way more CO2 to oxygen than trees ever will.

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.022055499

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Fig. 4 reveals that CO2 levels have mostly decreased for the last 175 My. Prior to that point they appear to have fluctuated from about two to four times modern levels with a dominant period of about 100 My. The decline for the last 175 My is also present in several previous pCO2 reconstructions (7, 8, 26, 27), and the entire curve displays some similarity to a previous estimate derived from the geologic record of carbonate formation (26). Although the period before −175 My differs substantially from previous geochemical model calculations (7), an approximate error estimate lends considerable credence to the pCO2 curve of Fig. 4. Specifically, φ should inherit ζ's signal-to-noise ratio of 2–3. This correspondence would be exact if φ(ζ) were linear. Because φ(ζ) is monotonic for the observed range of ζ, its nonlinearity does not affect the timing of the maxima and minima of the pCO2 curve. Thus the linear error estimate remains pertinent.

All us  'dinosaurs' will do fine.
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10 million years?

These people are wise./s

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Data derived from Ice Cores, Tree rings and Tea Leafs.   Yeah I believe this shit.
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Algae converts way more CO2 to oxygen than trees ever will.
So go plant some more algae.

You get the picture
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How were these experts able to find an air sample fron 10 million years ago?
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I want to see the data from 10,000 years ago, 100,000 years ago, 1, 5 and 10 million years ago.

Wait, data only goes back 150 years +/- ago.  And they call this speculation science, huh?  I call it more BS.


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Algae converts way more CO2 to oxygen than trees ever will.
I guess even pond scum has its place.

No wonder there is so much resistance to draining the swamp
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I guess even pond scum has its place.

No wonder there is so much resistance to draining the swamp

 :laugh:

But yes. algae more than pulls it's weight. There was a plan a few years ago to pour iron in the ocean to create ocean blooms of algae, eat up all the CO2. Canadian police raided the guy's home. Strange story.

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So go plant some more algae.

You get the picture

I wonder if some pools of stagnant water would more than solve this issue.

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How were these experts able to find an air sample fron 10 million years ago?

Dinosaur farts caught in amber.  :laugh:

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Data derived from Ice Cores, Tree rings and Tea Leafs.   Yeah I believe this shit.

There is no 10 million year old ice.  The deepest cores ever retrieved only go back 600k years.  And even then, they can't be compared to atmospheric air.  You can compare 100-year-old ice with atmospheric data from 1925, and the numbers will not match.
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There is no 10 million year old ice.  The deepest cores ever retrieved only go back 600k years.  And even then, they can't be compared to atmospheric air.  You can compare 100-year-old ice with atmospheric data from 1925, and the numbers will not match.

You do know my post was sarcasm. 
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You do know my post was sarcasm.

Yes.  I knew.
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