[ralfy]

The world is not some laboratory where one can simply release locked-up CO2 and plants will thrive. Even deniers will acknowledge that the world is much more complex than that, such that an increase in CO2 will have a forcing factor on others, which in turn will lead to more consequences besides "a bit of" warming.

[SeaGypsy]

I wonder how the stuff originally got here. If it was by meteor deposits over a relative period of geological time, rather than all at once, the equations for consequence of concurrent release are very different to if it was all at once in the atmosphere. Never have read any science on this subject; not sure there is any. We can assume that since life emerged it has been storing the stuff away; thus it is possible that this could get to the point of disaster for all life, the snow ball scenario (which we have indeed already set back at least a billion years). But if Carbon has been arriving and being accumulated gradually as it does so, releasing a billion years or more of accumulated deposits could be a disaster in the opposite direction. All very interesting. (now some is smarty pants here going to try to tell me the answer?)

[seenmostofit]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'T')he world is not some laboratory where one can simply release locked-up CO2 and plants will thrive. Even deniers will acknowledge that the world is much more complex than that, such that an increase in CO2 will have a forcing factor on others, which in turn will lead to more consequences besides "a bit of" warming.

[Roryrules]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'N')o it is not. The Earth is a big bonbon with a creamy nougat center of metamorphic methane, abiotic oil, that is constantly rising to replenish petroleum stores and surface carbon for plants to metabolize. The happy golden age awaits those who dream. like you.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('meemoe_uk', '
')Even the peakers most solid argument : oil reserves are finite, so production will peak someday is somewhat dodgy : -
Yes it's true reserves are finite, but the ingredients to make oil : CO2, H2, sunlight and life, are pretty abundant in our part of the universe.

[Quinny]

Almost ??

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('LateGreatPlanetEarth', 'W')hat's the latest consensus; were we duped by 'The party is over' or is the theory still valid or miscalculated?

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'N')o it is not. The Earth is a big bonbon with a creamy nougat center of metamorphic methane, abiotic oil, that is constantly rising to replenish petroleum stores and surface carbon for plants to metabolize.

[Subjectivist]

Hey that reminds me of the cartoon of the earth as a clear globe half full of oil with a straw sucking it dry!