Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Since the carbon is neither created nor destroyed, ALL PROCESSES are carbon neutral. What we are talking about is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Not correct in our context. We need to not add any additional net carbon to the atmosphere (and possibly remove some of what's already there).
In the global warming context, carbon neutral means the only carbon you put into the atmosphere is carbon that you recently removed *from* the atmosphere.
Originally Posted by
Excargodog
ALL FOSSIL FUEL was once put in the ground by biological processes.
Of course. But the fossil fuels we use came from an era when the global climate was MUCH different (hotter for sure, likely different gas concentrations than our current atmosphere). Just because the carbon was in the air when the dinosaurs roamed does not mean it's OK to put it back in the air now.
Originally Posted by
Excargodog
More is being put there every day in peat bogs and as methane hydrates in the deep oceans. Other is being captured as standing timber. Certainly if you then burn the wood, like burning any fossil fuel, that CO2 can be released again. Most coal was once trees or peat.
Sure. But nowhere near on the same scale as in pre-history, when vast swaths of the planet were essentially rain forests and bogs. Today's natural process are not keeping up with us undoing the processes from the the age of the dinos.