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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (187909)6/1/2006 12:56:38 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Appreciate it, but the author was referring to fertilizing land-based plants,
Sorry about that. It did say terrestrial, didn't it? Should have read more. Anyway, I did a phytoplankton search over there, and haven't come up with anything along those lines but found...

How long would that extra 25% of our emissions remain in the atmosphere if we were to stop emitting CO2 today? Tens of thousands of years? Hundreds of thousands of years?

[Response:Some of it (10% or so) for hundreds of thousands of years. This was the topic of my first post at realclimate! realclimate.org David]

Looks to me like there is a fast phase and a slow phase to removal.

realclimate.org
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