XPost: alt.global-warming, sci.skeptic   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/15/2026 3:57 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:   
   > Le 15/02/2026 à 09:08, Samuel Spade a écrit :   
   >> So you think hot weather causes more CO2?  How does that work?   
   >   
   > Every physicist knows that cold waters absorb CO2 and hot waters release   
   > it. According to the IPCC, some 80 GtC are absorbed each year by cold   
   > waters and released elsewhere by warm waters. That is some 7 or 8 times   
   > human emissions.   
   > IPCC experts suppose that emissions exactly balance absorptions every   
   > year and every century. Nobody knows, but we obviously can observe some   
   > lack of equilibrium some years associated with El Niño/La Niña conditions.   
   > Nobody can exclude some very long term trends in those very large CO2   
   > oceanic/atmosphere exchange, since temperatures have been increasing   
   > since coldest point of the "little ice age" (around 1700).   
   >  From the 13C/12C ratio, it seems that 9 or 10 % of the current CO2   
   > content of the atmosphere comes from fossil emissions, 90% from   
   > "natural" sources.   
   >   
      
   Why do cars, trucks and trains have tail pipes?  I keep asking you this   
   question and you have never answered it.   
      
   Dawn   
      
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