“The CO2 levels are INCREASING in the ocean. The CO2 in the atmosphere cannot possibly be coming from the ocean.”
There is fair amount of co2 in the Earth’s mantle which the alarmists do not realize. Volcanic eruptions put out alot of co2. Of course humans do contribute to the atmospheric co2 levels.
“And we know we burned about 7 gigatons of carbon last year, but only about half of that stayed in the atmosphere. Where did it go?”
photosynthesis on both land (plants) and sea (plankton); the rest is dissolved in the ocean as
carbonate and bicarbonate. And the ocean has a buffer system which allowed the pH to be constant for the past 20,000 years.
There is a disconnect in the co2-based AGW alarmists’ arguments. A disconnect between co2 and temperature. A disconnect between co2 and climate. More and more, alarmists talk about regional climate (in contrast to global climate), to reconcile with the observation that,say, glaciers are growing in some areas and retreating in others. As far as glaciers go, atmospheric co2 is not the controlling factor. In some places, temperature has been increasing in past 20 years, in others, it has been decreasing in past 20 years (for example, some places in South America).
