From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   Hank Kroll  wrote:   
   ...   
   > Co2 is so reduced in fact, that earth will not make any more coal,oil or   
   limestone because there is no carbon to make it out of. The climate had   
   changed from the beginning of time and there is nothing mankind can do about   
   it or the sun's output or the    
   undersea volcanoes that heat the oceans. Given the fact that oceans cover   
   4/5th of the world and water being the best heat retainer, it is obvious that   
   if we didn't have oceans earth would not be a nice place to live due to   
   extreme temperature changes.   
   ...   
      
   Innumerate twaddle.   
      
   There is 10x more carbon floating around in the ocean than   
   all the fossil fuels still in the ground. Scientists researching   
   the carbon cycle can naik down for you how much of that is   
   sinking to the bottom and re-entering the fossil fuel creation chain.   
   Crack a science textbook sometime.   
      
   --   
   The ocean contains about sixty times more carbon in the form of dissolved   
   inorganic carbon than in the pre-anthropogenic atmosphere (~600 Pg C). On   
   time scales <105 yrs, the ocean is the largest inorganic carbon reservoir   
   (~38,000 Pg C) in exchange with atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and as a   
   result, the ocean exerts a dominant control on atmospheric CO2 levels. The   
   average concentration of inorganic carbon in the ocean is ~2.3 mmol kg-1 and   
   its residence time is ~200 ka.   
   -- Richard E. Zeebe and Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow   
      
   Reservoir           Size   
                       (GtCe)   
      
   marine biomass            3   
   mangrove soils            6   
   plant roots              54   
   sea floor sediments     150   
   tropical forests        250   
   land plants             500   
   life on earth           550   
   fossils burned          600   
   dissolved organics      700   
   atm                     900   
   surf ocean             1000   
   soil                   1500   
   fossils remaining      2800   
   coal, oil & gas        4000   
   continental biomass    4400   
   deep ocean            38000   
   earth             100000000   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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