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A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered
Googlesaysmysiteisdangerousanditisn't! writes "A recent article in Science says that researchers in China and the US have found massive carbon uptake in the world's deserts. The effects of this are huge. 35% of the Earth's land surface is desert, and the uptake equates to 5.2 billion tons of carbon sequestered each year. This is more than half of the carbon released by humans. In these 'dry oceans,' the grains of sand allow the carbon dioxide to enter and react with alkaline soil to become carbonates. Another scientist suspects that biotic desert crusts, alkaline soils, and increased precipitation may be driving the uptake."
The solution is obviously to cut down more trees and make more deserts, right?
You'd think that exactly what you're looking for wouldn't be right in front of you until you find it is.
Now, where the Hell are my keys...
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
"Each year, the Rainforest is responsible for over three thousand deaths from accidents, attacks or illnesses." - Rainforest Schmainforest and now forests are rotting and giving off greenhouse gases. We must act to stop these forests from further encroaching upon our Earth-friendly deserts, it is time we cleaned them up.
If it gets too hot in the USA, guess where we're going to move to. That's right, and we're bringing our army too. Don't be wishing for global warming until you've thought the whole thing through.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Usually this would be where someone makes a sarcastic comment about you liberating the polar bears...but if you could just kill Celine first then I swear we really would welcome you as liberators.
... but most of it goes back into the atmosphere when the lawn is cut.
That really depends on what the homeowner does with the grass after it is cut. If it goes in a land fill most of the carbon probably stays underground. If if goes into a compost heap then more of the carbon goes back into the atmosphere.
Although I personally think laws waste a lot of resources (especially in LA where I live).
I guess the spell checker can't protect me from every kind of typo. Fortunately that sentence is still accurate. That could have been embarrassing.
...because we've already taken her off your hands and stuffed her into one of our desert hell-holes.
Holy shit. Deserts sequester Carbon and awful musicians?! Excuse me, the local bands in my city suck. I'm off to chop down a few trees...
You've obviously never been in the same room as me! :)