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Re:The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs by NeedMoreTea on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:43AM (#20929431)
Um, the oxygen component is a red herring and distraction to the climate debate. It took many millennia of a tiny oxygen excess to get us the atmospheric mix we know.

It's CO2 (and species and habitat loss) that matters, and the Amazon is hugely important for those, and for the climate of the region.

Which the article seems pretty clear on. So how is it presenting an impression climate change isn't that bad, or there's no urgency?

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Re:The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs by BurningFrog on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:37PM (#20930070)
> It took many millennia of a tiny oxygen excess to get us the atmospheric mix we know

It actually took a few billion years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

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Re:The Amazon Is Not the Earth’s Lungs by bilbo0s on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:08PM (#20929742)
I don't think HN User "vfc1" read the article.

That happens with troubling frequency on HN.

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