Wednesday, December 4, 2019

We've Got Enough Oxygan

Whether or not Leo DiCaprio set the Amazon on fire, the earth apparently has more than enough oxygen to support human life:

"The Amazon produces about 6 percent of the oxygen currently being made by photosynthetic organisms alive on the planet today. But surprisingly, this is not where most of our oxygen comes from. In fact, from a broader Earth-system perspective, in which the biosphere not only creates but also consumes free oxygen, the Amazon’s contribution to our planet’s unusual abundance of the stuff is more or less zero. This is not a pedantic detail. Geology provides a strange picture of how the world works that helps illuminate just how bizarre and unprecedented the ongoing human experiment on the planet really is. Contrary to almost every popular account, Earth maintains an unusual surfeit of free oxygen - an incredibly reactive gas that does not want to be in the atmosphere - largely due not to living, breathing trees, but to the existence, underground, of fossil fuels."

Source - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/amazon-fire-earth-has-plenty-oxygen/596923/

Just another little fact ignored by the climate change crazies.

This is not to say I'm in favor of burning everything up, but I do think we need better, more comprehensive analyses of what really is happening to our planet. Bogus assessments will lead to bogus "cures", and we don't need any of that.

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