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Mathematically speaking, if you honestly believe you or humans as a whole have any say in what happens to us you have serious mental health issues.
Problem with your argument is that none of those species had self-awareness or were able to reason, and didn't have the ability to do anything about their impending doom. We do.
Problem with your argument is that none of those species had self-awareness or were able to reason, and didn't have the ability to do anything about their impending doom. We do.
Of which impending doom do you speak of, maybe Obama starting WWWIII before he slinks out of office?
Problem with your argument is that none of those species had self-awareness or were able to reason, and didn't have the ability to do anything about their impending doom. We do.
That's more self-importance talk.
A new species can and most likely will be on this planet before it is swallowed by the sun that will make us look as sophisticated as a house fly.
Unfortunately, God is using that extra CO2 in the oceans to increase the acidity of the water. That's not been so good for marine life and coral reefs. I'm not sure what God has against marine life and coral reefs, but hey...mysterious ways.
Our oceans are very alkaline, aside from an occasional shellfish spot in an estuary, they always will be. There isn't enough acidic compound in the world to turn the oceans acid. The best you could do is to make the oceans less alkaline, and that would take million and millions of years to be noticeable. Coral reefs are just fine, check recent data, coral produces acid around themselves to protect from the alkaline ocean. The coral is acidic, making oceans acidic while not possible, would be helpful to coral reefs.
Welcome to the Pliocene. That was the Earth about three to five million years ago, very different to the Earth we inhabit now. But in at least one respect it was rather similar. This is the last time that carbon dioxide (CO2) levels were as high as they are today. Climate Change: Climate Resource Center - Graphic: Carbon dioxide hits new high
Increased water vapor is a product of increasing temperature, but only stays in the atmosphere for a matter of days, whereas CO2 remains and affects the temperature for centuries. Increased water vapor is a feed back effect directly related to an increase in atmospheric CO2...
CO2 is wonderful, save your beloved nasa.gov site content, it will be gone shortly when true science returns to NOAA and NASA. The same NASA scientist who leads the charge for global warming today, was leading the charge for global cooling years ago. It's time we brought science back and kicked politics out of our atmospheric research projects.
Organisms -- that includes you and me and the tree outside -- don't exist to sustain each other. This can be seen very simply by understanding the fact that 99.9% of Earth's species have gone extinct.
As a suggestion, you won't be getting very far -- which is evident by this thread -- if you look at the cosmos by "think[ing] about process[es]" independent from everything else.
Your main source for oxygen would be... what, if there were no vegetation and oceans and sun in existence for the purpose of photosynthesis?
I will amend my statement about "sustaining each other" - in that we don't sustain the water, plants, sun, etc... but they do sustain us.
Biblically speaking, the vegetation was created before humans and animals, as well as the sunlight, and the water... everything humans needed to sustain themselves was put in place before humans were created. And again, it is not by accident or evolutionary process, but by design.
Uh, what? First, not made by god as god doesn't exist. You should change your title. Second, you know about the devastation of the rainforests & impending consequences, right? Maybe you don't as you seem to think the work of vegetation is a new phenomenon. Wow. I'll just leave it at that & shake my head.
Our oceans are very alkaline, aside from an occasional shellfish spot in an estuary, they always will be. There isn't enough acidic compound in the world to turn the oceans acid. The best you could do is to make the oceans less alkaline, and that would take million and millions of years to be noticeable. Coral reefs are just fine, check recent data, coral produces acid around themselves to protect from the alkaline ocean. The coral is acidic, making oceans acidic while not possible, would be helpful to coral reefs.
When carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, the water becomes more acidic and the ocean’s pH (a measure of how acidic or basic the ocean is) drops. Even though the ocean is immense, enough carbon dioxide can have a major impact. In the past 200 years alone, ocean water has become 30 percent more acidic—faster than any known change in ocean chemistry in the last 50 million years.
Perhaps you just don't like sites that tell the facts about the effects of global warming, or maybe you think you are smarter than the many thousands of scientists that are actually studying the subject.
Surely you can show proof of that. waiting to see your proof.
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