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I'm simply reporting the FACTS:My goodness, all them thar 'facts', yet we have a 43% increase in CO2 in the atmosphere, and one of 250% of CH4. Now with all them thar absorbers, how did that get there? Or maybe your facts have been considerably 'massaged'.Hey healthmyths, Is it a hoax of not? By your own numbers there is 36 billion more available tons of CO2 that we can look forward to adding to the atmosphere. Per year, forever I take it?
Is that a hoax or not?
These aren't my numbers...
FACTS:
1) Carbon emissions reach 40 billion ton high: World faces 'dangerous climate change' - and China, the US and India are the worst offenders
China, US, India push world carbon emissions up
2) Earth's trees number 'three trillion'
Earth's trees number 'three trillion' - BBC News
3) A tree can absorb as much as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide per year, and can sequester one ton of carbon dioxide by the time it reaches 40 years old. [1]
Tree Facts - American Forests
So multiply 3 trillion trees time 48 lbs divide by 2,000 lbs per ton equals 72 billion tons...
PLUS in addition to the above absorption of Carbon... total forgot this absorption:
Recent estimates have calculated that 26 percent of all the carbon released as CO2 from fossil fuel burning, cement manufacture, and land-use changes over the decade 2002–2011 was absorbed by the oceans. (About 28 percent went to plants and roughly 46 percent to the atmosphere.) During this time, the average annual total release of was 9.3 billion tons of carbon per year, thus on average 2.5 billion tons went into the ocean annually.
How Much CO2 Can The Oceans Take Up? | The Keeling Curve
So NOT only do trees and grassland have the capacity of 72 billion tons but the oceans absorb another 2.5 billion or a total of 74 billion to cover 40 billion emitted!
Facts sorry...
Did you check the links?
NOT MY FACTS! I'm just doing a little more effort then YOU. Prove the FACTS wrong!
If there are 3 trillion trees and known CO2 absorption is 48 lbs that 72 billion tons of CO2 absorbed!
If according this link: China, US, India push world carbon emissions up
There are 40 billion tons of CO2... OK... Subtract 72 billion tons that trees can absorb there what is the problem with the math??
Please correct OK???
How do you gibe the conclusions you're drawing with these facts:
1) 40 billion tons of CO2 are emitted per year:
China, US, India push world carbon emissions up
2) Earth's trees number 'three trillion' 3,000,000,000,000 Earth's trees number 'three trillion' - BBC News
3) A tree can absorb as much as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide per year, and can sequester one ton of carbon dioxide by the time it reaches 40 years old. [1]
Tree Facts - American Forests
Can you do simple math?
If 3 trillion trees absorb 48 lbs. that's 72 billion tons.
If the earth emits 40 billion tons... that means ALL the 40 billion tons are absorbed leaving 32 billion more that can be absorbed.
I can't help it if this is the simple arithmetic.