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To: Moominoid who wrote (61798)	4/12/2005 10:58:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

<as there is an equilibrium between the CO2 vapor pressure in the atmosphere and in the surface ocean. So if more is falling in from rain, more will evaporate out again... > Moom, I don't think that can be true because all the fish and other living things get their tucker from the CO2 arriving, therefore a LOT more must be going in than going out. It is NOT in equilibrium, because each bunch of bones and flesh and oil which falls to the ocean floor is carrying a load of carbon which must be replaced by more from the atmosphere, via rain and river. The flow is oil well to refinery to SUV/747 to atmosphere to rain to river/ocean to plant to fishy things to the bottom of the ocean to subduction zone to volcano or sedimentary layer. It is a very lonnggggg process once it sinks to the ocean floor. A little bit of CO2 goes in the other direction, such as CO2 directly back to atmosphere by direct evaporation or by birds [or people] catching fish, birds dying on land, being eaten by cats, which die and decompose sending CO2 back to the atmosphere, short circuiting the process. But that's a small eddy in the big picture which is in at the ocean surface and down to the bottom. There's also ocean circulation as the colder and saltier North Sea water sinks and flows down towards the equator, carrying umpty million tons of CO2 with it. I should get a highly paid job as a climate consultant. Not many of them seem to understand these simple processes judging by the constant doomster political and media reports on the imminent end of the world due to CO2. Mqurice

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