Quick skim it seems they are saying humans are neglible and the ocean / land cycles / sinks play a bigger role. Do we not impact both those with our industry and even minor changes can upset the balance?
quantified · 7h ago
We've been watching this train wrecking in slo-mo for decades. Funny how the mainstream science has been predicting reasonably well. Re-watch Soylent Green if you need to.
rolph · 7h ago
Do we not impact both those with our industry and even minor changes can upset the balance?
TLDR: yes.
physical processes cyclicaly source, and sink chemical compounds as part of energetic exchange. biology has slewed the balance a number of times; the great oxygenation; the great eutrophication ; the neoanthropic carbonization.
these set a new balance and a new regime of physical processes tied to energetic exchange, and relative abundance of chemical reactants and products.
Quick skim it seems they are saying humans are neglible and the ocean / land cycles / sinks play a bigger role. Do we not impact both those with our industry and even minor changes can upset the balance?
TLDR: yes.
physical processes cyclicaly source, and sink chemical compounds as part of energetic exchange. biology has slewed the balance a number of times; the great oxygenation; the great eutrophication ; the neoanthropic carbonization.
these set a new balance and a new regime of physical processes tied to energetic exchange, and relative abundance of chemical reactants and products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carbon_cycle.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
the physical circumstances make it complicated, the underlaying engine, is chemistry.
consider, millions of years worth of carbon sequestration being released [burned] over a span in the order of centuries.