If anyone is perpetrating a climate “hoax,” it’s the Deniers. For why, read on.
Countering one of the deniers’ favorite trick questions.
It’s not necessarily a “trick” question in all cases. Maybe sometimes it’s an “honest” error, if being honest entails burying one’s head in the sand. But in case of willful tricksters, it’s another one of those niggling questions with which they like to trip up the unsuspecting. Another piece of their hoax to confuse us.
Here’s how the question goes: A carbon dioxide molecule stays in the atmosphere for only five years. So what’s all this doom and gloom forecasting that CO2 will hang around for hundreds of years in the air even if we stop fossil fuel burning?
Yes it’s doom and gloom. But it’s based on facts (the inconvenient kind).
For an explanation, we have the carbon cycle to thank.
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