On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM, James Annan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Or use it as biofuel. But 100 years of carbon sink would be a pretty
> good solution regardless of its finite nature.

How can it be so large? If the present perturbation is less than 20%
due to deforestation, and we need something like triple the present
perturbation to balance the coming century, even if the great deserts
can compensate for all deforestation to date it seems off by an order
of magnitude.

Admittedly I haven't RTFP...

mt

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