XPost: alt.global-warming, sci.skeptic   
   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/16/2026 9:39 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:   
   > Le 15/02/2026 à 19:58, Dawn Flood a écrit :   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > How do you know that warm oceans emission exactly match cold oceans   
   > absorption all the time ? How do you know that there are no   
   > fluctuations, no long term trends ? You don't.   
   >  From the 13C/12C ratio, we know that only 10% of the atmospheric carbon   
   > dioxyde comes from fossil fuels. Only a fraction of what you believe.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Where does the 40+ billion metric tons of CO2 from human activities go   
   then??   
      
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