I hope everyone recognizes that this must be some sort of joke. No reasonable scientist could believe that "carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all oxygen-breathing organisms including humans".
I prefer to think that this is an attempt at humor, because I would not like to imagine that these people are innumerate crackpots. There are something like 3.7 x 10^21 moles of O2 in the atmosphere. If we are emitting say 10 GtC per year, and we round off to 10 g / molC, this is 10^15 moles C. So, at this rate we are depleting about 0.00003 % of the atmospheric O2 each year. This is not a policy concern. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:39 PM, M V Bhaskar <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php > > O2 Dropping Faster than CO2 Rising > > Implications for Climate Change Policies > > New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere accelerating > since 2003, coinciding with the biofuels boom; climate policies that > focus exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all > oxygen-breathing organisms including humans > Dr. Mae-Wan Ho > > .. > > Mae-Wan Ho Comment left 22nd August 2009 06:06:43 > Ben, you are missing something. First, O2 is there principally because > of carbon storage time, its rate of drop currently is ~10 ppm [ per > annum ], but it could well swing further downwards. > > ----------------------- > > CO2 increase is 1.8 ppm per annum - increase from 280 ppm to 380 ppm > in 200 years at an accelerating rate. > > http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OceanCarbonSink.php > > "The researchers found that the average photosynthesis over all the > marine stations in northeast Atlantic was 2 600 + 271 mg O2/m2/day, > while the average community respiration was 3 821 + 276 mg O2/m2/day. > Clearly, respiration rate was far in excess of photosynthesis. > Additional evidence indicated that over the period of a year, > respiration still exceeded gross production." > > http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GlobalWarmingPlankton.php > > "The plankton of the oceans will capture 4 Gt of carbon less per year > by the end of this century, representing a reduction of 21 percent. > This is equivalent to one-third of current worldwide emissions by > industrial activities and would significantly aggravate the > anthropogenic effects on climate change." > > Restoring the Phytoplankton of the oceans is the best solution to stop > increase in GHGs in the atmosphere. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
