Actually got this one particular issue at work.. I skimmed through it and saw the article. I shall read it tonight or tomorrow and comment on it. Just letting you know in order keep the thread up so I will remember. It looked pretty interesting.
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Hooked on fossil fuels, humans pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Fortunately, plants and ocean waters gather it in. But what happens when the planet's great carbon recycling system goes awry?
the rest of the article by Tim Appenzeller: The Case of the Missing Carbon
Apparently what is happening is that plants and oceans are absorbing only about half of the eight billion tons of carbon we produce, and the rest is being absorbed through other means. If plants and oceans only absorbed the amount of carbon they're expected to, we'll all be in extreme peril, they say.
If you have a chance to see the actual article on this month's issue of National Geographic, check out some of the graphs showing the massively abnormal high amounts of carbon in the atmospehere since the begining of industrialization.
Your thoughts?
Actually got this one particular issue at work.. I skimmed through it and saw the article. I shall read it tonight or tomorrow and comment on it. Just letting you know in order keep the thread up so I will remember. It looked pretty interesting.
