Thats a good point Joe I heard a deal on NPR about the worlds Oceans are absorbing most of the Co2 - albeit it is starting to cause more sinister problems as a result.
It seems to stand to reason as it was algae that created the oil, that we are turning to carbon, in the first place. Jim >From: Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Chicken Little Strikes Again! CO2 is >rising!C02 isrising!A scientific Rebutal >Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:01:49 -0500 > >This is speculation but I would be willing to bet that more CO2 is sunk >into algae around the world than forests or crops. > >Joe > >Randall wrote: > >>Phillip, >> >> >> >>>>... At the same time, 85% of the world's forests (which are natural >>>>carbon sinks) have been destroyed or degraded. ... >>>> >>>> >> >>Could you be a little more specific? I agree with Jim, those numbers seem >>VERY high and the term "degraded" seems a bit vague. >> >> >> >>>>... The info came from the World Resources Institute (www.wri.org) >>>>There's a ton of useful stuff on their site. >>>> >>>> >> >>Where, specifically, on www.wri.org can this information be found and then >>verified? >> >>--Randall >>Concord, NC >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "JAMES PHELPS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> >>Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:03 PM >>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Chicken Little Strikes Again! CO2 is rising!C02 >>isrising!A scientific Rebutal >> >> >> >> >>>Well I am not sure I buy 85%. This seems a bit skewed as high. I say >>>this >>>because not all mans activities have been adverse. in example, The >>>Dakotas >>>have a hundred fold more trees than existed 200 years ago. There are >>>also >>>more crops in production that are bigger co2 gulpers than native crops. >>> >>>I also understand this is just a very small snapshot in the whole scheme >>>of >>>things and the fact that those crops can also be used to create methane >>>as a >>>result of feed stocks and so forth. >>> >>>But when we use numbers like that, we will tend to disenchant those on >>>the >>>edge of understanding. >>> >>>Jim >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Biofuel mailing list >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >>messages): >>http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 >messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
