Originally posted by chuckChuck
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You seem very preoccupied with the issue of CO2 levels declining after we stop releasing them from fossil fuels. You bring this topic up almost every time I pick on you. So, one could assume that you must be knowledgeable about this topic, otherwise, why would you step on the same garden rake over and over again, knowing it will smack you in the face if you don't know the answer to one very simple question.
Yet when I asked you a very elementary question, about a topic for which the science is allegedly settled, you made a wild guess, providing a range of 100 years, up to hundreds of thousands of years( which could be as much as a million years).
For someone with as much confidence in this topic as you portray with your bluster and bravado, and willingness to bring it up almost daily, I assumed you must know the exact answer, and that it must favor your position on the issue. Otherwise, any wise person (see what I did there, not going to assume your gender, just in case you get offended) would quietly avoid getting embroiled in a debate which they either don't know any relevant facts, or for which the actual facts run counter to your ideological position.
We have had this exact discussion countless times, and every time you come up empty handed. Well, not quite empty handed, you provide a litany of insults and childish names.
Maybe this time you can do your own research and try to narrow down the actual answer, since it is literally the root of the climate emergency narrative. If we stop releasing CO2 tomorrow, how long before the elevated levels return to their preindustrial levels? It makes a big difference if it is a week from next Tuesday, or a million years from now.
Maybe after you answer the residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere, then we can get back to the really fundamental question of the temperature sensitivity to a doubling of CO2. For which you have never been able to provide an accurate answer, but is the basis for the entire theory of global warming.
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