OT: Unbelievable climate change bullshit

[charles]

Don't be so impatient. Give it time

[harryagain]

I have one too. SWMBO seems to haver a fixation on them.

Just a matter of waiting. Things have slowed up now there's so much O2 in the atmosphere. However, CO2 is bulding up once more, the coal forming process may restart.

If you are short of coal, you can short circuit the process by chopping the tree down and burning it. Probably more efficent too.

Can't say I've tried to burn monkey puzzle wood. Let's know how you go on,

[harryagain]

Note LATE carboniferous. ie after the process of atmospheric conversion. When there was enough O2 in the atmosphere, coal formation stopped. ie the dead vegetable material rotted rather than turned into peat/coal/whatever. A cycle was established.

[Martin Brown]

It does if you bury the logs in an anaerobic shallow sea and then wait a few hundred million years - although aucaria coal is gem grade jet - way too valuable to burn if you are lucky enough to find a seam of it.

Why do you think fossil fuels are so named?

[spuorgelgoog]

Do food waste recycling places use coaliform bacteria?

Owain

[Martin Brown]

It was more that free oxygen in the atmosphere becomes ultimately self limiting since when the partial pressure of O2 exceeds about 0.3 atm natural forest fires become much more common and so they die back.

Dead vegetable matter rotting in an anaerobic environment and then subjected to great pressure underground is what makes fossil fuels!

Anaerobic waters do become less common when pO2 increases.

Towards the peak pO2 trees burnt up to a residual amount of charcoal before it could reach the shallow seas and end up in the coal measures.

[harryagain]

They become less common when the polar ice disappears. There might be oil generation going on in the Black Sea.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Explain in no more than 200 words why you care about the slight change in climate we might bring about, when compared to the huge changes that occur naturally.