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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (18832)12/22/2007 3:10:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
To point out to you the very very rapid rate at which plants eat CO2 and that things don't take geological time to happen: <Then why were you prattling about the rate of change in the annual plant cycle if you know all this stuff?>

Suppose Australia and the Sahara turned green with forests and iron and other nutrients filled the oceans, the rate of CO2 absorption would be very vast. Oceans are the big absorbers and the final sinks. Trees are just more visible.

The area of the Sahara and Australia are small compared with all the water. People can relate to trees better than they can to algae in the sea and radiolarian ooze. But trees aren't such a big deal though people go on about the Amazon jungle being the lungs of the world.

Nature happens quickly. Even geological time isn't all that slow. A million years isn't what it used to be when I was young and any time before I was born seemed so prehistoric it wasn't worth thinking about.

Mqurice
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