RE: Anthropogenic Climate Change
March 11, 2011 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2011 at 10:19 pm by lilphil1989.)
(March 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm)corndog36 Wrote: I think it is well established that animals produce CO2 and methane, (Some of us more than others) and that these gases deplete the ozone layer which causes a temperature increase.
I don't think that's true. Small nitrogen-containing molecules and halogens can deplete the ozone layer, but not carbon dioxide or methane.
That's the reason that CFC's were banned, free-radical chlorine atoms in the upper atmosphere break down the trioxygen molecules.
(March 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm)corndog36 Wrote: The planet has a means of compensating. Temperature increase causes an increase in plant growth, especially trees,
I'm not too sure about that one either. I imagine it would cause a decrease in growth rates in at least some species. Can you point me to some evidence for this claim?
(March 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm)corndog36 Wrote: plants take in CO2 and give off oxygen and ozone, the ozone layer is replenished and temperatures decline.
Ozone is definitely not a product of photosynthesis.
Can you explain how the ozone layer being replinished would lead to a decrease in global temperature, because I'm not sure that that's true either.
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