Posted On: February 7, 2007, 9:09 am CST

Posted By: AJ

In response to Algoresucks's "You couldn't possibly understand all this" post.
The various biogeochemical cycles you outlined were interesting. A professor in earth systems science may argue with one or two small points you have stretched, but we'll let those slide.
However, the processes you describe exist on millennial timescales. We have seen a rise in CO2 levels, in our own lifetimes, that have never been witnessed by any human being before in the same period of time. Granted, some of the processes you describe will eventually "soak up" all this carbon, bringing the system back into equilibrium. But in the few hundred years until that happens we'll just have to ride out the unprecedented temperature increases and increases in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. But I'm sure you'll be fine with you head securely buried in the sand.