[wbill]

I read somewhere that grasses are the predominant producer of oxygen, not trees.

Yep, that makes a lot more sense. Grasses and underbrush.

I live in the Southeast. The Kudzu vines down here grow 10' a day, and will catch and eat slow moving animals (kidding, sort of). Just that right there is one heck of a carbon sink.

[KarlInOhio]

Yep, that makes a lot more sense. Grasses and underbrush.

But if it either rots or is eaten then it isn't a carbon sink because the carbon is released back into the environment. You need a way to freeze the carbon so that it isn't released, so I propose chopping down the Black Forest and making and burying non-degradable bioplastics. Let some water bottle's 10,000 year life span do some good. (Do I hear the Sierra Club's heads exploding like the Martians in Mars Attacks yet?)

I live in the Southeast. The Kudzu vines down here grow 10' a day, and will catch and eat slow moving animals (kidding, sort of).

I'm far enough north I've never had to deal with kudzu (my battles are against honeysuckle and fence eating mulberry bushes), but that was funny.