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Originally Posted by Tree Potato
The issue warmists have with petroleum is not heat storage, it's the theory that CO2 released into the atmosphere causes global warming as a "global warming gas." As far as energy storage and release goes, burning petroleum or wood is many orders of magnitude less significant than the heat stored, transported, released elsewhere by the oceans and the movement of energy stored by water vapor in the atmosphere.
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The Earth has been seriously de-forested, the large forests (example the vast costal Redwood forests that dominated the western United States) acted as CO2 dumps, filtering huge quantities of the "greenhouse gas" and exchanging it for O2.
How then has man's extensive logging not significantly contributed to warming but from the other direction?