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Carbon Dioxide is certainly part of the cycle of life. It is used by plants to create their food and expire oxygen. All plants and life are based on carbon. All fossil based fuel is also made from carbon. This fuel would sit on the ground and become what is know as a carbon sink. This means that it is carbon that is not free to be in the air. Carbon Dioxide is found in the air and comes from any organic material that is burnt or rots. Trees that die give off the same amount of CO2 of they rot or are burned for fuel.

Today, man produces a large amount of CO2 by burning fossil fuels. Some estimates are that man produces up to 6% of all CO2 emissions. Some of that is from material that would have rotted or burnt naturally. Some believe that CO2 levels have risen in our atmosphere by as much as 0.007% in total atmospheric concentrations since 1850. This is based on historical data from the Antarctic and comparing that data with current numbers in cities and airports around the world. The number, is at best questionable.

Some also believe that the current levels of CO2 (now at 0.037%) is causing an increase in temperatures around the world. The planet does show warming over the past 6000 years. Most of that (10.7 degrees) is before we ever burnt any fuels. CO2 has always followed temperature due to the absorption ability of our largest CO2 sinks (The Oceans). CO2 follows temperature by roughly 800 years.

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