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Many people claim that the greenhouse effect is to blame for global warming, but i dont. Now, i do believe that chemicals do play a part in global warming but it is not the main problem. I have a theory that explains whats really causing global warming. The theory is called the photosynthesis effect. It is when the tree and plant population declines and therefore cant absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. So the carbon dioxide stays in our planet causing a tramendious heat increase. But the problem can be solved by replanting trees as well as other plant life, in which would absorb the carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. If venus had plant life then it would probably be cooler as well. What do you think about the photosynthesis theory that i have created.

2007-10-03 18:56:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Botany

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Bingo you got it half right.

The lack of new plants and our burning of old ones is what is contributing to the greenhouse effect. One possible solution would be to plant more plants that would eat up the extra CO2, however; that is only part of the cure because if that was all we did then we would increase the oxygen content to a fatal point. So the solution for that would be to increase the number of creatures breathing that oxygen, and they would all release more methane which is another greenhouse gas.

The problem is two sided and you only approach one side. The major side is the pollution. When plants die they decay away, join the dust and so are recycled. But, if oxygen can't get to them, like at the bottom of a swamp then the remaining organic matter and get burieds by the soil when the swamp fills in, which always happen. Then over a period of millions or years that organic matter is buried and crushed under hundreds of tons of rock and soil. The heat and pressure transform the material into; oil, coal or natural gas.

We are mining these old plants and when we burn them we release the old carbon dioxide that used to be trapped in those plants millions of years old and we are adding it to the CO2 we already have in our atmosphere.

So we are plowing down the rain forest and removing the plants that suck up the carbon dioxide, while we are burning the old trees and dead plants from a million years ago and all the time we are trying to live with the CO2 we normally have. Then we are adding more methane (cows and people do that) just to make the problem even more acute.

This is why the change "suddenly" happened. There is nothing sudden about it and it has been happening since civilization and before that even. But, it wasn't until our civilization got large enough that we started to have a dangerous enough problem that the earth couldn't adjust for it. Remember that 50% of the humans that have ever lived are alive NOW, and all of them want to be warm, to have lights, and to drive their cars. All of us are creating the problem. The big thing is that the worst offenders the US and China are both lying about it. China claims to be aware of the problem, but they are lying about the amount of CO2 they produce, and the US is lying to itself saying there isn't even a problem. Meanwhile, the glaciers keep melting, the polar bear will go extinct and we are going to mess up the planet.

Oh sure the earth will get over it, and after it has shrugged off that annoying parasite mankind, with floods and then a new ice age; it will keep on going.

2007-10-03 19:13:55 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 1 0

It is partly right, but not the whole story.

The destruction of trees is one (minor) cause of global warming. But planting trees and other things will only help a little. This graph shows why.

http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/mauna_loa_record/mlo_record.html

The little squiggles are nature doing its' thing. CO2 falls a bit during summer when plants are active, and rises during the winter. The huge increase is us, burning fossil fuels. All the plants in the world can't keep up with us. More plants would make the teeth a little bigger, but the curve will still go up.

Man is upsetting the balance of nature. We need to fix that.

2007-10-03 19:16:18 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 7 · 0 0

nicely you're fairly awesome, yet it fairly isn't any longer new. there are various efforts under thank you to get human beings and communities to plant timber. In Europe, there are classes on the subject depend of multiple economic rewards for planting specific species that technique CO2 at bigger costs.. In California there is analyze happening to visual demonstrate unit CO2 ranges in a huge tree farm this is yielding interesting consequences, which includes that timber strengthen quicker and have larger leaves in the presence of better CO2 ranges.. and of direction there are ongoing efforts to lessen the fee of deforestation worldwide. None of this skill that worldwide warming is by technique of something different than human production of CO2 by burning fossil fuels as has continually been theory. What it implies is that timber play an important place in removing atmospheric CO2, even with it fairly is source. placed yet otherwise, deforestation quantities to the human race shooting itself in the different foot.

2016-10-10 06:46:52 · answer #3 · answered by giardina 4 · 0 0

Ummm, yeah.... that is included in the climate change models....

At least you are thinking!

Which is more than i can say for a lot of people out there.

2007-10-04 04:38:48 · answer #4 · answered by Captain Algae 4 · 0 0

i ewill make the weathur ehow i want it,, do you like it, talker,

if soemthing is rounfd lie a ball it isnt suppose dto have diffrent temperatures

2007-10-03 19:02:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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