I was listening to a piece on the news this morning describing how oil production is up 6% in the US and wondered:
- If all this conversion of fossil solids and liquids (coal and petroleum) from the earth into gas (CO2+) is increasing the volume of earth's atmosphere?
- If so, what effects would this create?
- Is the atmosphere getting taller?
- Would atmostpheric pressure at the surface increase?
- Would all the additional CO2 dissolve into the world's waters at higher rates because of the elevated pressure?
- If so would this result in acidificaiton of these waters? What are the effects of that?