CCXCI Global Warming and Climate Change} All of the scientific data shows that there is less than 50,000 gigatonnes of available carbon left!

    During the last 60 years, mankind has added between 1 and 2 parts per million of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere every year, the yearly average would seem to be around1.8 parts per million, but that does depend on where the measurements are being taken. If mankind was to suddenly be removed from the planet, then carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would start to drop by around that same 1 to 2 parts per year, because of carbon sequestration that has been going on since life started around 3.5 billion years ago. How much carbon has been sequestrated over this period of time has been calculated by scientists as between 60,000,000 and 100,000,000 gigatonnes of carbon! Remember one gigatonne is a billion tons. (however, if we were to use numbers from our sister planet Venus which is 19% smaller than the Earth the true amount of sequestrated carbon on the planet should be double the amount scientists has exterminated, at around 185,000,000 gigatonnes removed over the 3.5 billion years of the Earth having abundant life on it.) Whether the sequestration of carbon is 60,000,000 or 185,000,000, gigatonnes doesn't matter in the long run, what matters is how much is left available for life to be able to continue! How much carbon was on the planet 3.5 billion years ago is the same amount as there is now but is now locked away from life, you can surround a plant with 100 tons of limestone which is mainly carbon in rock form and it can not use any of that carbon to combined with energy from the sun for growth. Plants can only use carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to bind with the energy from the sun for growth plus water, and the necessary micro-nutrients. The only way that limestone and other carbon-bearing rocks can become carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is to come in contact with a very high heat source, as where the great plates of the planet come together. 

    The Earth interior is slowly cooling down mainly due to radioactive decay that has been going on in the planet's interior for billions of years, as each particle decays into a lower energy level, heat is released but each following decay produces less and less heat each time, as the interior of the planet cools the driving force behind the "plate tectonics" become just a tiny fraction less and the corresponding release of carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere also decreased! 

    Only 50,000 gigatonnes of "available" carbon are left on the planet for plant life to use! (one gigaton is "one billion tons" does not sound like just a little bit to me! Well, it is a very little bit, when you factor in that the planet sequestrates around 10 gigatonnes of that every year. The actions of an active core of the planet return only around 3 gigatonnes via volcanoes and plate tectonics, for a net loss of around 7 gigatonnes per year. Meaning that the carbon-based life on this planet is doomed without an actively thinking and acting species on this planet repairing the planet! Only mankind has that distinction, and only if mankind can remain a viable species of this planet! If for whatever reason mankind becomes unable to maintain the planet's carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere at a level high enough for C3 plant life to continue then this planet will start on into the neverending ice age until the planet will for all intents and purpose become one solid ball of ice. Will life still exists on the planet, yes anywhere that carbon dioxide is being vented from a hot active core, life will find a way to continue, but as the core slowly cools down, which it has been doing since the planet was first formed. The ability of the planet to melt carbon-bearing rocks gradually diminishes. Once plate tectonics stops then almost all life will also stop. Only mankind can actively repair the temperature regulation of the planet, maintain carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and ensure that all carbon-based life can continue! While numbers can be made to mislead, they can not lie! As always I can be reached 24/7 @ 402-890-7946, or reach me @ daniel.kadavy212@gmail.com  or continue reading either the 12-page paper titled Life cycle of a planet by Daniel James Kadavy or the accompanying 290 short posts that go into more detail by going to  https://lifecycleofaplanet.blogspot.com Thank you, and keep telling others about that crazy guy in Nebraska that knows how mankind needs to repair the planet and why! Dan

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