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To: Moominoid who wrote (58601)1/9/2005 7:45:56 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Hi David. Clouds have a big surface area! They must be absorbing a LOT of CO2 and raining it into the ocean. I dare say that's a faster absorption process than straight into the ocean surface. I admit that's a complete wild guess, but photos of Earth from space show a LOT of opaque cloud, so the surface area of clouds must be about 1000 times that of the ocean surfaces.

Then there is accelerated plant growth and plants have huge surface area too.

It's the old problem of filling a leaky bucket. The faster you fill it, the deeper it gets, but the faster it leaks out. At any flow rate there's an equilibrium depth.

Same for the atmosphere. Given our CO2 output over and above the natural rate, the question is what is the equilibrium concentration.

There should be some curves available of output rate [known] and atmospheric concentration [known], giving us some guide on where the asymptote might be. Do you have any links?

Mqurice
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