Conversation on Saidit with a climate change denier.

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[–]Questionable 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

We are the carbon you wish to eliminate.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You're trying to argue that without fossil fuels, all the carbon in the biosphere would disappear and all life would therefore be removed from the earth?

And you think a link to a journalist's write up of a paper looking at the greenhouse gasses in human breath makes that point?

The paper discusses methane and nitrous oxide, not carbon dioxide.

I'm inclined to assume that you know you're wrong.

Or do you think that for the past 4 billion years life has only been able to exist because some civilisation has been combusting fossil fuels?

[–]Questionable 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yes. The blame is put on the humans, to inflict guilt and shame. The humans are the carbon. But You already knew that, which is why I'm inclined to assume that you are playing dumb. '

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes. The blame is put on the humans, to inflict guilt and shame.

You don't think the increase in greenhouse gasses related to human combustion of fossil fuels, and we're merely scapegoats?

What do you think is burning the fossil fuels?

The humans are the carbon.

The carbon is fossil fuels. You know humans aren't fossil fuels, right? The carbon in the biosphere doesn't need fossil fuel carbon to supplement it in any way. It goes through the carbon cycle perfectly fine, and nothing dies from lack of carbon.

But You already knew that, which is why I'm inclined to assume that you are playing dumb.

One of us seems to be.

Life got along fine for well over 3 billion years without supplementing the carbon in the biosphere by burning fossil fuels. Neither the carbon in our bodies nor that of our domestic cows and plants will be extracted and eliminated if we stop burning fossil fuels.

But surely you do know that? Climate science denial arguments are so dumb.