Fossil Fuel cycle. Do you ever consider how our fossil fuels came about ......?

Question

and the Changes that our atmosphere underwent in the process? In a nut shell: The earth started off in a state of global warming with a toxic atmosphere; then through the process of photosynthesis the atmosphere was filtered and the structures of animal life evolved organs to breath and live in clean air. The earth at that point had become a carbon sink. Now through industrialisation and deforestation we are returning the earth once again into a carbon source. With our glut for cheap fossel fuels we are slowly returning the athmosphere into its primordial state with all the progressive repercussions in climate change etc.... In Just two hundred and fifty years since the industrial revolution we notice significant changes. Doesnt this tell us anything?

Answer 1

I don't think that this knowledge is very useful for those who are suffering from climate change. The difficulty is basically about the speed required to adapt to the changes. I have no reason to doubt predictions that the current climatic cycle following the last ice age will give rise to substantial changes over the next 17000 year but it is challenge to adapt when they are condensed into a few hundred years - starting about forty years ago!

Answer 2

Well, not exactly. The atmosphere was created by way of some oxygenation, according to the evolution class I took at a major Uni, science isn't exactly sure if the o3 came from the earth or if it was delivered here by way of comet. Then the o3, being all corrosive destroyed alot of what was here and became an atmosphere. Fossil fuels in the form of oil didn't come around til prehistoric plant life died and broek down in to the pure petroleum that is now so coveted. From that we get gas, oil and jelly as by products of processing. Besides, the earth has under goen global warming way long before human intervention and would have again without, just life, just Mother Nature.

Answer 3

I am curious what resources you think we are running out of. In reality, we are not running out of resources. As a geologists, I have learned that that is largely a myth. Resources have become more available and cheaper. We are currently having some problems with oil but has to do more witht the political obsticles to making oil more available. Certainly, there are no significant metals that have become less available. Nobody wants a dump in their back yard but if you can do the math, you will figure out very quickly that the amount of trash we generate isn't so great that you can claim we are running out of room. We may need to open up some new landfills but it isn't as big a problem as often perceived. You are correct about cows. Cows letting off gas does nothing to increase CO2 since obviously cows eat grass that removes CO2 from the atmosphere.

Answer 4

To believe that humans could have so great an impact on the world, when about 70'% of the word is covered by oceans rather than land mass is just stupid...

But hey, popular theory is just that...popular theory...don't even bother how they used the same arguments to make the case for global cooling, or warming, or cooling, or warming within the past 100 years.

Science finds what it wants to, untill there is accountability in the fleid of science, we will keep coming up with these doomsday theories.

But hey, it's hotter today..........eventhough it was colder yesterday.......

Answer 5

None of you know what you're talking about except onion head lol if we really cared about this planet we would all commit hari kari but then again the planet will shed us like a snake skin anyway,THAT'S what global warming is about!.

Answer 6

It tells us a lot of things. It doesn't explain the early ice ages though. But a lot of CO2 is going to be a bad thing in ways we can't even guess yet.

Answer 7

Just that we are greedy idiots who aren't smart enough to give a damn about anything but what we want to buy next. Such a sad state we find ourselves in...but not for long...122112

Answer 8

Honestly nope

Answer 9

tells us these changes are miniscule compared to all the freezing and warming our planet has gone through in its geological history.check out rush limbaughs sight.

Answer 10

I already know.