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RE: A Discussion About Climate Change – Part 1: Milankovitch Cycles
Therefore climate change is a natural process, and our consumption of fossil fuel and burning coal is not a culprit. In my opinion even the deforestation could nothing to do with the climate change. The ocean is a huge refinery of oxygen. However, the extinction of animals may link to deforestation.
If it were that simple I would not need to break this post into multiple parts. Please stay tuned for future installments!
The problem of burning fossil fuel is that there is an addition of CO2 to the carbon cycle. This works in a similar way with deforestation. A large amount of potential CO2 is stored as carbon in trees. Deforestation takes carbon away from the storage and puts it into the atmosphere as CO2. A higher concentration of atmospheric CO2 increases temperature due to the greenhouse-effect. So my question is how in your opinion deforestation does not add to climate change?
Currently it's mainly a carbon sink, which is the reason why the CO2 in the atmosphere isn't already much higher. But while the oceans get more sour and hotter, that also has a limited capacity.