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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."
Study's have show that CO2 is irrelevant as a greenhouse gas.
Such a typically liberal response...
If it moves, tax it
If it keeps moving, regulate it
If it stops moving, subsidize it
Tell you what, you want to hike taxes on gasoline? From now on, for every gallon you pump into your car, send the government an additional $4 directly. You can do that, and you'll be doing your part! (your part to making the absurdly inefficient and useless beaurocracy slightly richer)
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."