I have recently met a great deal more people that do not believe that global climate change is a real phenomenon and that we, as humans, are having an effect on our environment. You notice I have called this post “Global Climate Change” and not “Global Warming” because we honestly do not know what the atmosphere will do with all of this CO2..pretty much anything could happen.
The information I am going to present was taken from the Vostok, Law Dome, and Taylor Dome ice cores, the most recent data is taken by air flask. The information represents the CO2 in the atmosphere over the last 400,000 years. If anyone wants to try and debunk my information with hard core facts (no opinions) then I welcome it.
Here is the CO2 in the atmosphere: (Click for bigger picture)
As you can see for the last 400,000 years things have followed a pretty regular pattern…until the last 100 years or so when things appear to have gone a little big strange..coincidence? I think not. Since the industrial revolution we have been burning large amounts of fossil fuels. We are currently pumping huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere every day (in fact around 1.5 million tons) it’s absurd to think that this has no effect on the atmosphere. As you can see not only is the CO2 no longer following it’s trend it is at the highest point it has been in 400,000 years. Now is a good time to present the temperature data for the last 400,000 years!
Temperature last 400,000 years: (click for bigger picture)
Once again the temperature follows a pretty regular pattern until wham.. last 100 or so years things get a little bit hairy. If we follow the trend we should have seen a large dip in temperature that usually signals a general cooling, however, the CO2 in the atmosphere appears to be keeping the temperature high and extremely irregular. We have managed to upset the earths temperature cycles and there is no telling exactly what will happen to our climate as the earth attempts a self correction..but we can guess…
We can expect the oceans to become more and more acidic as they absorb the CO2 in the atmosphere and create large amounts of carbonic acid..fun..this kills fish and causes algal blooms (which we have been seeing a lot more of recently on extremely large scales) these algal blooms will kill even more fish and start choking the oceans other life. With these changes occurring in the ocean the weather will no doubt be affected..what will happen as far as that is concerned I cannot even hazard a guess. The changes that occur in the ocean will have a big effect on our food supplies as all of a sudden fish become much more scarce.
Anyone denying our influence on our environment is misinformed or foolish. Unless we start making some changes we are going to keep pushing CO2 into the atmosphere with end results we cannot be entirely sure of…
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