Turning back Time — Fossil Fuels & The Carbon Cycle
In a succinct, informed essay on the oceans, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Exc explains how oceans determine climate and influence climate change, again providing scientific evidence for human populations to shift rapidly away from fossil fuels to renewable alternatives. She writes:
The carbon cycle supports life on earth and keeps its climate stable. Carbon is the fourth most abundant element on earth, and makes up 50 percent of the dry weight of living organisms. The global carbon cycle involves the flow of carbon between the major carbon reservoirs: the atmosphere, the oceans, the vegetation and soils of terrestrial ecosystems, and fossil fuels deposits.
[H]uge amounts of carbon are stored in the oceans (especially the deep oceans), in the fossil fuels reserves, and the soils, compared with what’s in the atmosphere. There is no returning arrow to the fossil fuels to balance the outflow, at least not over timescales shorter than millions of years, which means that the carbon released into the atmosphere cannot be reabsorbed. In addition, change in land use also releases the carbon stored in old forests over thousands of years into the atmosphere.
'...Over millions of years when photosynthesis exceeded respiration, organic matter accumulated to form coal and oil deposits, which removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to carbon stores in geologic sediments. Burning fossil fuels thereby destroys carbon stores that took millions of years to build up.'|
Source: — Mae Wan Ho, Executive Director, Institute of Science of Society is author of the The Fluid Genome, a must read discourse on why the biotech empire has got the science wrong. This work is by a scientist who has been warning for over a decade that genetic engineering is both dangerous and futile.
Find out why the whole biotech enterprise, from GM crops and gene drugs to human cloning, is a phenomenal waste of public finance and scientific imagination, and, most importantly, what it means to be living with the fluid genome.
- A personal account of one scientist's struggle against a corrupted scientific establishment bent on promoting genetic modification (GM).
- A dossier of scientific evidence of the most serious GM hazards
- An exposé‚ of the degenerate research programme of mainstream biology
- A death-blow to genetic determinism
- A refreshing antidote to the Darwin industry
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