The confounding case of the missing carbon
Jul 29, 2015 19:23:31 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 19:23:31 GMT -6
Yes, That's Right,,,, Missin Carbon Dioxide, yes, I guess Climate Change Scientist can't account for all their missing Carbon that's Not Killing Us!
Researchers gathered groundwater flowing under the desert sands. The amount of carbon carried by this underground flow increased quickly when the Silk Road, which opened the region to farming, began 2,000 years ago. Cool Yea!
Sand,,,, The Earths Own Natural Filtering and Capturing System,,,, Who Would Of Thought,,,, Mother Earth Could Take Care Of Herself?
And Global Warming Is?
? Bull Shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For several decades, scientists have been searching for about a billion tons of carbon dioxide generated from the burning of fossil fuels.
Of the roughly 11 billion tons of carbon produced each year, it has been estimated that more than 5 billion remains in the atmosphere. Another 3 billion is stored in the oceans. The rest of it, it seems, is sequestered in tropical and northern forests, but there's some -- perhaps a billion tons' worth, perhaps even more -- that can't quite be accounted for.
Scientists have struggled to explain the "missing carbon sink," with some arguing it's actually in the forests after all, and others believing it's elsewhere.
Now, an international team from the United States and China is suggesting there is another possible repository for some of this missing carbon: below the deserts of the world.
In a paper in the Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, the scientists contend that massive aquifers underneath deserts could hold more carbon than all the plants on land. Thanks to agriculture in these areas, they estimated these underground deserts aquifers are storing 14 times more carbon every year than previously thought.
Of the roughly 11 billion tons of carbon produced each year, it has been estimated that more than 5 billion remains in the atmosphere. Another 3 billion is stored in the oceans. The rest of it, it seems, is sequestered in tropical and northern forests, but there's some -- perhaps a billion tons' worth, perhaps even more -- that can't quite be accounted for.
Scientists have struggled to explain the "missing carbon sink," with some arguing it's actually in the forests after all, and others believing it's elsewhere.
Now, an international team from the United States and China is suggesting there is another possible repository for some of this missing carbon: below the deserts of the world.
In a paper in the Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, the scientists contend that massive aquifers underneath deserts could hold more carbon than all the plants on land. Thanks to agriculture in these areas, they estimated these underground deserts aquifers are storing 14 times more carbon every year than previously thought.
Researchers gathered groundwater flowing under the desert sands. The amount of carbon carried by this underground flow increased quickly when the Silk Road, which opened the region to farming, began 2,000 years ago. Cool Yea!"The carbon is stored in these geological structures covered by thick layers of sand, and it may never return to the atmosphere," said Yan Li, a desert biogeochemist with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Urumqi, Xinjiang, and lead author on the study. "It is basically a one-way trip."
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And Global Warming Is?
? Bull Shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
