>>1281075>Humans are affecting it, but it's happening with or without our influence.Read this bit of logic and see if you still agree:
The earth puts out an amount of CO2 into the atmosphere from respiration, combustion, volcanic activity, etc. The earth takes back in an equal amount of CO2 through photosynthesis, ocean acidification, etc. When humans put out just a little more CO2 than is naturally released, that CO2 has nowhere to go. Photosynthesis may increase if there are enough resources for increased plant growth, acidification might increase slightly (which damages shellfish but that's not the point here) to adjust for what humans add, but those processes can only handle so much. Humans put out a small amount compared to the earth, but that small amount compounds over time, building and building with nowhere to go.
It may be happening without our influence, but in that instance it can adjust itself because of the relative slowness. Our influences moves too quickly, in terms of centuries, compared to the thousands and thousands of years required for the earth to react.
