A theory of destruction...(mine)

[Pre4edgc]

Ok. It starts like this:

Any planet that has any capable release of CO2 will release it. But after just so long, in any atmosphere, it will continue to grow until that planet is full to bursting, and then it does, bursting a hole through the atmosphere and destroying everything on the planet until it's desolate. See what I'm getting at?

Our planet has been alive for 4.55 billion years, and for about half of that, or less, life has created CO2. But since we have grown, and destroyed things that reduce it, including the exponential amount of exhaust that we release. Because of this, then the CO2 will reach this critical point, and rupturing the atmosphere, and this is what I believe to be the end of what we call Global Warming. We will all die in this ending.

To clarify on the rupture of the atmosphere, the CO2 that will fill, as it does now, will absorb the sunlight and pollution, weakening it, and create a small rupture. It will grow, because we see that some CO2 is lessening, and we think we are on the decline that we believe to happen every couple thousand years (as explained in Al Gore's movie). But instead of lessening, it continues to leave and create a bigger hole, until the UV rays from the sun burns us to a crisp, as well as the rest of the life, and that's it. We're gone.

In addition, this would happen to any other planet that would have the same conditions. And the thing is, with any life, this would happen, and would therefore be a natural condition. It would be part of life, and would also explain why we can't find any other life, if it exists. If you can find a flaw or something in the theory or help clarify it, then I would be very grateful.

[Janus]

Atmospheres can get thicker or thinner or change composition, but they don't "rupture".

[insane_alien]

go read a book about basic atmospheric physics. please.

[Edtharan]

Besides what has already been said (ie that the atmosphere can't "Rupture"):

 

CO2 can be reabsorbed out of the atmosphere. Trees do this (they absorb CO2 then through photosynthesis convert it into hydro carbons and release the oxygen). Also, there are some chemical reactions that occur in rocks that can also absorb the CO2.

 

until the UV rays from the sun burns us to a crisp,

CO2 does not have any major effect on the amount of UV radiation reaching the Earth's surface. The Ozone layer is what mainly protects us from UV. Ozone is actually a molecule with 3 Oxygen atoms, where as CO2 is a molecule of 1 Carbon atom and 2 Oxygen atoms.

 

In addition, this would happen to any other planet that would have the same conditions.

Take a look at the planet Venus. It has a runaway greenhouse effect (with a vengeance). The amount of Greenhouse gasses in the Venusian atmosphere is huge. They trap so much heat that the metal Lead would melt on the surface. Also, even though Venus does not have the mass of the Earth, it's atmosphere is much, much thicker than Earth's.

 

Venus' Atmosphere is about 97% CO2 and is also around 90 atmospheres of pressure (that is the pressure at the surface is around 90 time that of Earth's atmosphere, yet Venus is around 81% of the mass of Earth.

 

So CO2 won't cause a "Rupture" of our atmosphere as Venus has far more CO2 than Earth has (which is around 0.03%) and hasn't gone through any "rupture".