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There is nothing at all congress can do about climate change. Why do liberals constantly harp on it?
Do you think China, India, Argentina and other developing nations are going to cut back on energy consumption because a gaggle of academics think it's a good idea?
Dream on.
You know every single time I put this up there is NOT ONE global warming evangelical refuting it!
Because it is a fact... The USA made out to be the BIGGEST and WORST CO2 emitter actually is called a net carbon sinkit sequesters more carbon than it emits.
In simple terms, the US absorbs all the CO2 emitted by the USA with enough Landscape to absorb another 15% CO2!
Yet NOT one global warming enthusiast will agree much less do they understand!
They don't seem to get even with the analogy..
Say all the CO2 emitted in the USA could fit in a glass. There would still be enough room in the glass for 15% more CO2!
So where is the BIG BAD USA chief corrupter of GAIA folks??? Absorbing ALL plus 15% of the rest of the world's CO2!!!
Two types of analyses confirm this:
1) atmospheric, or top-down, methods that look at changes in CO2 concentrations; and
2) land-based, or bottom-up, methods that incorporate on-the-ground inventories or plot measurements.
Net sequestration (i.e., the difference between carbon gains and losses) in U.S. forests, urban trees and agricultural soils totaled almost 840 teragrams (Tg) of CO2 equivalent (or about 230 Tg or million metric tons of carbon equivalent) in 2001 (Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks).
This offsets approximately 15% of total U.S. CO2 emissions from the energy, transportation and other sectors. Net carbon sequestration in the forest sector in 2005 offset 10% of U.S. CO2 emissions. In the near future, we project that U.S. forests will continue to sequester carbon at a rate similar to that in recent years. Based on a comparison of our estimates to a compilation of land-based estimates of non-forest carbon
sinks from the literature, we estimate that the conterminous U.S. annually sequesters 149330 Tg C year1. Forests, urban trees, and wood
products are responsible for 6591% of this sink.
World Climate Report » Earth?s Carbon Sink Still Strong and Growing
http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2007/nrs_2007_woodbury_001.pdf