This is an apples-to-oranges comparison, you didn't give the source of your numbers but you seem to be giving an estimate for the *total* amount of carbon dioxide contributed by forest fires over the last 5000 years (not the average annual amount over that time period), and comparing it with the amount of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels *each year*.
According to the estimate at https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/9/697/2017/ forest fires contributed an average of 2.2 billion metric tons of carbon per year (not carbon dioxide) over the period of 1997-2000, and the mass of a carbon dioxide molecule is about 3 and 2/3 that of a carbon atom, so that'd correspond to about 8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year from forest fires. Multiply that by 5000 and you get about 40 trillion tons of carbon dioxide per 5000 years, in the same ballpark as your estimate of < 78 trillion tons. According to https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions the CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels totaled about 37 billion tons in the year 2021, which is a lot larger than the 8 billion tons from forest fires in an average year. Another point is that in preindustrial times, the Earth was in a sort of dynamic equilbrium where the CO2 added to the atmosphere from various sources was on average almost exactly equal to the amount of CO2 pulled from the atmosphere each year by various processes like photosynthesis (see the illustration of the global carbon cycle at https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/node/1019 with preindustrial carbon flows shown as black arrows, human-caused flows in red). So even if there are some natural CO2 sources which contribute more each year than human activity (like the CO2 in the exhalations of all animal life on the planet, or diffusion of carbon from the ocean into the atmosphere), the significance of human emissions is that they throw off this preindustrial equilibrium and cause significantly more CO2 to be added to the atmosphere each year than is taken out by natural processes. And direct measurements show the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has dramatically increased over the last 60 years (from just under 320 parts per million in 1960 to just under 420 parts per million today)--you linked to the Crichton interview from 2007, did you notice the part right at the beginning where he said he agreed CO2 in the atmosphere had increased by about 30% in the last century? On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 1:42 PM Philip Benjamin <medinucl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > general_the...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* RE: [Consciousness-Online] > Global warming > > > > *[Philip Benjamin]* > > Hoping and trusting that Serge and his family are safe and sound. > Unconscionable politicians—PAGANS—with dead consciousness – zombies—are > exploiting apocalyptic pseudoscience, mostly for pagan Marxist utopian > propaganda and conveniently for funding props for academics. > > The forest fires (minimum 1,500 annually worldwide) had already > produced < 78 trillion tons of CO2 for about 5.000 years of recorded > history and still safe! Fifty years of PAST and projected 100 years of > FUTURE petroleum burning can produce > 33 trillion tons of CO2. What then > is the threshold of “apocalypse” of the “goldilocks” of CO2? > > It is as WAMP-the-Ingrate *loving* the Sabbatical (and the > two-day Sabbath weekend) and *hating* Sola Scriptura, the one and only > source of Sabbath!! > > Philip Benjamin > > Non-conformist > > > > *From:* 'Rosemary Rock-Evans' via Consciousness-Online < > general_the...@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Friday, December 16, 2022 6:14 AM > *To:* general_the...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [Consciousness-Online] Global warming > > > > This video was placed on my recommendations list and as we have Michael > both on the website and as a video I watched it. I think, because you are a > group that are open minded and do listen, you will find this fascinating. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwNgKX-yCS4 > > > > I don't know who the interviewer is but he must be the rudest, most > objectionable man I have ever seen interviewing a placid, well informed, > tactful, but firm Dr Crichton. > > > > > > Despite the fact the interviewer interrups everything Dr Crichton says, > implies he is mad because he has another view, and says the equivalent of > you stand alone, aren't you going to give in, I for one am extremely glad > he didn't. > > > > Dr Crichton gently mentions consensus science and how dangerous it is > > 'consensus science is not science, it is all about politics' > > > > Shows how dangerous the allocation of money is to favoured causes in > distorting research and its findings. > > > > And also explains how many men appear to be obsessed with finding > apocalyptic endings, and that those who say actually there is no > apocalypse, but there are things happening we could take into account and > plan for - in a measured, non knee jerk way - are ignored by the media and > hence people because there is no 'story'. > > > > Having searched through the news outlets every morning trying to find > actual news of Ukraine and finding nothing except speculation and lies, I > have taken to asking Serge directly, as not a single report has been > correct, ever. > > I gather the newspaper/news outlets pay journalists peanuts. 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