Soren wrote on Sep 26
th, 2013 at 1:37pm:
Karnal wrote on Sep 25
th, 2013 at 1:43pm:
Your extensive scientific training is there for all to see, old chap. Good show.
The carbon trapped in the earth and turned into carbon dioxide does not create anything new. These fools clearly don't understand the first principle in physics: matter can't be created or destroyed, just transformed.
Carbon dioxide doesn't come from outer space. It comes from the carbon stored in the ground reacting with oxygen when heated.
What would these idiots know, eh?
Marvellous stuff.
You are capable of comprehending certain things!?! I am amazed.
New medication?
No, old chap, just the usual brandy on the rocks at cocktail hour.
Allow me to continue. When the carbon in the ground reacts with oxygen in the air and forms carbon dioxide, this substance enters the air and the sea to change it at the molecular level. In the sea, it increases the pH level, making water more acidic.
The result of this is a shift in global homeostasis. Sea and plant life needs to adapt, and those who rely on it need to adapt with it. What seems like a small change from carbon to carbon dioxide, when performed on a global basis to provide energy to 5 billion humans, raises the temperature of the sea, the air, and the land.
Er, my rocks seem to have melted. Another brandy thanks, old boy. Have one yourself, will you.