You explained it right.I probably explained wrong...
CO2 that is locked in the ground in coal, gas, oil is harmless and can not enter the air unless it is taken out of the ground and burned. IF its in there, its harless. Once you take it out and add it to the air, its adding more C02 to the air that wasn't there before and therefore making the CO2 levels rise. Once you take the coal/oil etc out and burn it, you can't put it back into the ground and out of the equation above ground.
C02 thats in trees, isn't locked in. As the tree died the carbon in the Co2 is released in the ground or turns into gas and oil etc.. This carbon pretty much circulates the earth over and over.
That co2 was in the air before. Just like it’s trapped in the tree it’s trapped in the oil. No difference.
Only difference now is people have been led to believe that co2 levels higher than anything in OUR recorded history is evil, and speculate doom and gloom without any proof. The climate models are not right. We do not have the computing power to insert all the variables, plus we don’t understand the sun enough.
I know they say the oceans will acidify, but there was no proof of that when levels were 5 times now, or that the earth will become a desert, but that has already been debunked.
It’s interesting that if you watch geological or paleontological video, or read a book of the same sort, they do not talk about the evils of high co2, but how life thrived and adapted to it.
Plus temperature rise has already been shown not to rise due to co2 increases, but adjusting of numbers by NASA and NOAA is what makes it seem so.
If you don’t believe that, here is a video.