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Re:One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the... by JulianMorrison on Monday October 15, 2007 @06:35AM (#67981)
When a process has homeostatic feedback, it can absorb some change with no result.

Also, when a process has a maximum (in the case of CO2, total opacity in its spectral window), then going beyond the maximum has no further effect.

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Re:One of the World's Foremost Meteorologists Has Called the... by Tichy on Monday October 15, 2007 @06:53AM (#67987)
I wouldn't say my last prayers just yet, either - definitely there are a lot of complex mechanisms at work, and some of them might help to balance the ecosystem. On the other hand there have always been huge climatic changes in the history of earth, so we can't just count on everything staying the same it always was. It didn't work for the dinosaurs, that much is certain. There is no benevolent force that sees to keeping conditions just right for human survival.

As for CO2, I also don't know why suddenly all attention is focussed on that. It seems to be just one part of the problem/puzzle.

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