Frederike Böhm Department of Philosophy, Kiel University I like to follow the concept «reduce — reuse — recycle» when it comes to consumption: borrowing, sharing or buying second - hand are often good alternatives to purchasing new things, the production of which
causes additional carbon dioxide emissions and use resources.
Not exact matches
In the past, some people have argued that the increase in
carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air would be partially offset by an increase in plant growth,
caused by that
additional (CO2): increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should work like extra fertilizer and lead to increased plant growth.
And that
additional water vapour would in turn
cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which
carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.
The Nature commentary by Penner et al. on which this argument is based actually says that on top of the global warming
caused by
carbon dioxide, other short - lived pollutants (such as methane and black
carbon)
cause an
additional warming approximately 65 % as much as CO2, and other short - lived pollutants (such as aerosols) also
cause some cooling.
Additional carbon dioxide uptake
causes direct changes in seawater acid - base and inorganic
carbon chemistry in a process termed ocean acidification.
The greenhouse effect from that extra water vapor will then
cause additional warming that gets added to the original warming from
carbon dioxide.
If
carbon dioxide causes warming,
additional CO2 should produce
additional warming.
And that
additional water vapour would in turn
cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which
carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.