An equal or greater threat than global warming...

[Inv3rted]

http://www.coralcoe.org.au/news_stories/acidocean.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification

Carbon dioxide is entering the oceans at an alarming rate and over the years it has turned them more acidic. The oceans are naturally basic, so it is possible that large quantities of marine animals won't be able to adapt to a more and more acidic environment.

:(

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[Sirrus]

I've also read that if trees continue trying to absorb the extra carbon dioxide we're putting into the air, they could reach a point where they reverse their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and release their stores of it back into the air, worsening the effects of global warming a thousandfold.

Bottom line is we're forgeted sideways.

[Parallel]

We're all doomed. Get into the bunker!!!

[ultimamax]

You know..
That's why I wanted to be born in like 1910 or something.
That'd be cooler, for the exception of WWII.

[Inv3rted]

I've also read that if trees continue trying to absorb the extra carbon dioxide we're putting into the air, they could reach a point where they reverse their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and release their stores of it back into the air, worsening the effects of global warming a thousandfold.

That doesn't really sound possible.

[Chrono]

That doesn't really sound possible.

Nor efficient for the trees themselves.

Bullstuff is over 10000.

[Ephialtes]

That doesn't really sound possible.

Nor efficient for the trees themselves.

Bullstuff is over 10000.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rain-forests-release-carb

[Parallel]

You know..
That's why I wanted to be born in like 1910 or something.
That'd be cooler, for the exception of WWII.

Pretty soon we'll have a WWIII: the fight over oxygen.

[Chrono]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rain-forests-release-carb

Oh okay.

At least you supplied an article.

[Inv3rted]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rain-forests-release-carb

I was referring to the thousandfold part.

Trees release CO2 as part of cell respiration after photosynthesis, like most other life.

[Sirrus]

I was referring to the thousandfold part.

I just like saying thousandfold.

Regardless of the degree, it would worsen things.

[Ephialtes]

I was referring to the thousandfold part.

Trees release CO2 as part of cell respiration after photosynthesis, like most other life.

Trees also release all the carbon dioxide they store (a lot) when they die - and the rate of tree death is rising. Here's another article for you:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1873352,00.html

[Riot]

 I knew about this, I've decided a while ago not to have kids. I just don't want someone growing up in a future of Fallout3.

[Chrono]

I knew about this, I've decided a while ago not to have kids. I just don't want someone growing up in a future of Fallout3.

Curse our future and it's slow gameplay!

[Riot]

 Unless someone takes over the world and creates a new world order that will save us all.....