Global Warming and Climate change} Why do people say that we could not be running out of carbon for life?
I have posted this question online in several different places. How can scientists say that the planet is sequestrating around 10 gigatonnes of carbon a year, and the activity of the planet returns only around 3 gigatonnes a year, but the carbon cycle is in balance! Then they state that there is between 65,000,000,000 gigatonnes and 100,000,000,000 gigatonnes of limestone or other types of sedimentary rock sequestrated on the planet. All of this was once life made from carbon, no longer available to be used for a new life! They do not even talk about what has been either buried deep at the delta of every major river system on the planet or pushed even lower were two great plates of the planet met, forcing one plate up but the other plate down. Carbon can neither be created or destroyed, but it sure can be changed or buried so deep underground so as to be no longer available to be used for new life on the planet. So everyone that responds to the question show's me a picture of the carbon cycle that I have seen since I was 10 years old, with very few changes, some do show some sequestration of carbon but then imply's that even this is returned as carbon dioxide, once it comes into contact with plate techtonics. Right now there are around 800 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is the 400 parts per million than everyone is talking about. Let's pretend that, 100 % of the atmosphere as carbon dioxide that would only come to 400 ppm is to 800 gigatonnes as 1,000,000 part per million is to 2,000,000 million gigatonnes, but there is at least 65,000,000,000 / 2,000,000 =32,500 planet atmosphere's buried just as limestone along. And everyone will tell you that the carbon cycle is in balance! I can't believe that the planet still can support life at all when these types of numbers are involved. It just goes to show you how little of life on this planet we understand! Please, someone, tell me where I am doing the math wrong! I can be reached @ danielkadavy212@gmail.com Or by phone in the USA @ 402-890-7946 Thank you, and if I am doing the math wrong please tell me how? Dan
Comments
Post a Comment