zira
05-29-04, 05:55 PM
Questions:
(a)
How much has CO2 concentration in the atmosphere increased since beginning of industrialization age, let's say 1800
(b)
Take the amount of CO2 produced during one year by non-natural processes (=human activity).
Maybe difficult to say what that is exactly is, humanity also burned natural materials for "primitive" heating and nightly lighting since the stone-age. So count any "high level activity" beyond primitive use of fire.
How many years do all natural reduction processes together (algues in the ocean + trees and plants on land) take to decompose this supplemental CO2?
Otherwise formulated:
if humanity could stop NOW any combustion of fossile energy sources, how many years would the CO2 concentration reversal to a year 1800 level take?
Would like to see scientific estimations about that... or a link to scientific pages about that (?)
(a)
How much has CO2 concentration in the atmosphere increased since beginning of industrialization age, let's say 1800
(b)
Take the amount of CO2 produced during one year by non-natural processes (=human activity).
Maybe difficult to say what that is exactly is, humanity also burned natural materials for "primitive" heating and nightly lighting since the stone-age. So count any "high level activity" beyond primitive use of fire.
How many years do all natural reduction processes together (algues in the ocean + trees and plants on land) take to decompose this supplemental CO2?
Otherwise formulated:
if humanity could stop NOW any combustion of fossile energy sources, how many years would the CO2 concentration reversal to a year 1800 level take?
Would like to see scientific estimations about that... or a link to scientific pages about that (?)