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Climate talks see some progress as clock ticks

World Dec. 09, 2011 - 06:40AM JST ( 3 )

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illsayitDec. 09, 2011 - 10:42AM JST

oh is that europe saying developing countries. always wanting to educate people cause europe must be thesmartest smartie on the bloc. maybe they missed the point that developing means that those countrieswant to capitalize, not that theyre stupid
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SerranoDec. 09, 2011 - 10:51AM JST

I doubt that the amount of CO2 generated by humans significantly alters the Earth's climate, I think it's 99.99% Mother Nature. Can anyone really prove otherwise?
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donkusaiDec. 09, 2011 - 02:57PM JST

Serrano, I remember reading the stats and nature is responsible for around 97% of CO2. The logical response to this is that cutting greenhouse emissions seems like a complete waste of time, but the natural system is in balance and pretty much all of that CO2 is reabsorbed into nature. The problem with adding our 3% to the already existing natural CO2 emissions is that it puts the total CO2 in the atmosphere beyond the rate nature reabsorbs it, meaning that if, say, 2% of what we add is not reabsorbed, that 2% extra will still be around when we add another 2% the following year, taking the total above the ability of nature to reabsorb to 4%. As it increases, it's soon 10%, then 20% and so on. As of 2009, we're sitting at 39% over normal natural levels, but it is still rising.