I need help with a carbon question:
According to the "carbon cycle", carbon flows into the atmosphere and then chemically reacts with rainwater and minerals in rock thru a process of weathering, as well s being absorbed and used by plants. The more wilderness, mountains a country has, the more carbon is "absorbed". Enter the USA, Australia and Canada - countries which should absorb a lions share of carbon - contra places like Holland and Japan.
Question: If the USA produces more carbon than any other country, how much of this is absorbed b/c of our mountains, forrests etc?
This is a serious question - serious answers, please.
Thanks
Mankind only produes 5% of all carbon emissions. You would need to be a Democrat in search of money and power to believe that we had anything to do with it.
There was a special clause written into Kyoto...which I found interesting. If you know this all real...and you had technology on your side...you could develop trees that could switch C02 at double the speed...as I've been told. Apparently....the Kyoto guys wrote up an agreement that this was a "foul" and would not lessen your negative numbers one single bit. I sat there...and thought...if I was sinking in a river and someone threw me any kind of life vest...I wouldn't care what kind it was. Apparently...they do.