Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (17276)	4/28/2006 12:11:35 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541453

CO2 stays in the atmosphere for several hundred years. Does this statement make sense to you? Did you study chemistry and biology? Plants, including the algae in the oceans, remove CO2 from the atmosphere and emit oxygen during photosynthesis. Any individual molecule of CO2 can go anywhere the wind blows. "Atmospheric lifetime" is a pedagogical construct. If there are more plants taking in CO2 than sources emitting CO2, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will decline. In the USA, the reforestation of the Eastern part of North America has been removing CO2 from the air. If you emit CO2 in a forest, you're making the trees very happy, and that CO2 isn't going to remain in the atmosphere for long at all, minutes or hours.