OT: RE: CO2 Emissions

[Lawrence Harris <lharris@HEALTHVISION.COM>]

Not quite.  We are taking carbon from plants plus oxygen from the air
and replacing it with carbons dioxide.

We need oxygen, plants need CO2 if all is in balance then things work
great.  Unfortunatly we are chopping down trees, and poluting water
which is decreasing the planets ability to convert CO2 back to C and O2
while at the same time converting the C + O2 available (from millions of
years of plant production) back to CO2 in only a few decades.  The
equation is very lopsided and our house of cards will collapse at some
point.

An interesting side note, the oxygen that plants release actually comes
from the water they take up, not from the CO2 in the air so they need
good clean unpoluted water to stay alive and do their job.  So between
clear cutting and water polution we are probably in serious trouble -
only the time frame is in serious question.

Lawrence Harris
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> ----------
> From:         Mark Brueggemann[SMTP:markb@ABQ.COM]
> Reply To:     Electric Vehicle Discussion List
> Sent:         28-Nov-97 11:49 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list EV
> Subject:      CO2 Emissions
>
> To:     Electric Vehicle Discussion List <EV@SJSUVM1.SJSU.EDU>
> Subject:      Oil Junkie Methadone
>
> Mitchell Oates wrote:
>
> >...Only problem is, to reduce the average world temperature by 1/2
> degree
> >C, you would have to dump 30 million tons per year of iron into the
> oceans,
> >and once the plankton dies they release the carbon in them back to
> the >enviro
> nment...
>
>
> Isn't that what we're doing by burning oil?  Releasing CO2 stored in
> plants
> millions of years ago.  Seems to me we're just releasing back what was
> once
> here already anyway.
>
> (Flame suit on)
>
> ===>Mark
>
> Mark Brueggemann   markb@abq.com
> Albuquerque, NM
>
>
> CO2 Emissions
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OT: RE: CO2 Emissions