If CO2 causes global warming then by the same reasoning smoke causes fire?

Question

So then it should never cool off. ever, because as it heats up the oceans release mor CO2 into the atmosphere and that makes it hotter and then more CO2 is released and it will get hotter and more CO2 will be released.

Answer 1

It's clear by looking at past history in the ice cores, that co2 lags temps by over 800 years.

Temperature increases cause co2 increase, not the other way around.

You are exactly correct!

Answer 2

i think you're touching on the reality that for the period of a few climate changes interior the previous, CO2 lagged some hundred years at the back of temperatures. the reason of it particularly is fairly common. CO2 is the two a forcing and a comments. an develop in temperatures could reason the oceans to launch greater CO2, which then contributes to the warming. the reality that CO2 has no longer introduced on all changes interior the previous would not advise it may no longer set off a metamorphosis, or that it may no longer make a contribution. there is no question concerning to the reality that CO2 is a greenhouse gasoline. increasing the quantity of CO2 interior the ambience will make the temperature pass up. It in order that happens that the different is likewise real. A actuality that should make us much greater in contact concerning to the present substitute. The oceans are at the instant a internet sink of CO2, yet it particularly is only no longer the case lots longer. in the event that they heat lots greater, they're going to start up emitting greater suitable than they take in, and CO2 will start to construct up quicker than ever.

Answer 3

CO2 can act in two ways. That's basic science, undisputed by any skeptical scientist.

It can cause warming by the greenhouse effect. And it's released from ocean waters as they warm. As I said, undisputed science.

Previous warmings were started by something else, generally the Sun. Then, after a lag of hundreds of years, CO2 went up as it was released from the oceans.

This time is different. THERE IS NO LAG. CO2 and temperature are going up together, clear proof that this warming is mostly caused by CO2.

It's one of many reasons that this is true (and note the source):

"While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258342,00.html

More about this issue here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=13

Great site about global warming:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

Answer 4

Just because CO2 lags temperature increases in past events is no reason to totally discount the effects of the 35% increase in atmospheric CO2 in the last 200 years. An increase unprecidented in its rapidity (in geological time terms) and certainly due to human activity. And the worrisome thing is that it is going up faster and faster as we burn more and more coal and oil. It will take much less than 200 years to go up another 35% if we do nothing to stop it.

Now don't get in a panic by that number, 35%. It is a 35% increase, not an increase TO 35%. CO2 went up from 0.028% to 0.038%, which is a 35% increase. CO2 will never be a really large percentage of the air because there is not enough coal and oil in the world to make that much CO2 even if we burned it all.

Answer 5

Smoke and fire are heat-so the heat of ignition called fire is actually just a millionth of a degree away from smoke..../There is cold smoke hot smoke and smoke that is fire burning, so there is degree's of heat between intense fire and plain ordinary smoke that is caused by heat. If more of the smoke blanket's the earth with reflection's of heat that is called global warming. If you don't believe in global warming go to the arctic and enjoy the once pristine climate.

Answer 6

Uh... no. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. It can both result from warming global temperatures (through a feedback mechanism related to ocean temperature–Co2 is less soluble in warm water) and force global temperatures at the same time. I know it's a hard concept for you guys to wrap your head around–the idea that CO2 is both a feedback and a forcing– but just try, OK?

Answer 7

Correct. One theory is that solar activity causes climate change which causes CO2. CO2 increases are therefore after temperature changes.

Answer 8

A follows B, therefore, A caused B.

This is all you really need to know to be a global warming scientist.