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Originally Posted by Helix
Waiting for the libs to start a boycott on all carbonated drinks. Carbonated drinks = CO2 release increase into the atmosphere.
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Hi Helix,
That's not how it works. The CO2 that is put into carbonated drinks, is taken from the air where it resides already. Making a can of coke sucks CO2 out of the air and inserts it into the drink, which then escapes back into the air (or out through our bodies a few hours later).
The CO2 from energy like gasoline comes from fossil fuels from deep under ground, not from the air. When we burn gasoline, we are extracting CO2 from the ground and inserting it into the air.
(Plants do the opposite - they collect CO2 from the air and force it into the ground, or bring it to the ground when they die and become buried by other plant stuff)
Too much CO2 in the atmosphere, like too much Methane, traps heat. Our sun warms the planet and alot of that heat usually escapes back into space. Too much CO2, Methane, and other "green house gasses", trap that heat and reflect it back down, slowly but surely warming things up, hence less ice, more floods, worse weather, etc.