(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. The planet has a means of compensating. Temperature increase causes an increase in plant growth, especially trees, plants take in CO2 and give off oxygen and ozone, the ozone layer is replenished and temperatures decline. Since we experienced a global cooling scare in the 1970's and the half cycle is about 30 years, we should be going into a cooling phase soon. If we don't I'll be worried. But I'll be more worried about deforestation than CO2 production.
Boldened for INCREDIBLE STUPIDITY.
How did Early Earth deal with massive amounts of oxygen in the air? It fucking changed it's climate completely, killing off massive amounts of life.
The Earth will "compensate" like any physical system - by going out of whack relative to what we want.
A casual look at the other planets and what went "wrong" with them shows that pretty planetary body Earth is rather hard to keep within bounds of "livable" even when the damn thing is perfectly unmolested (case in point - ice ages).
Now factor in several billion top-level consumer life forms and their industrial waste.
