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Old 02-01-2007
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Re: Ski resorts affected by climate change

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Originally Posted by Cato View Post
Oceanic uptake: 2.8
Forest uptake: 1.0
Additional terrestrial sinks: 2.8
Total NON-Atmospheric storage: 6.6GtC

Meaning all of the anthropogenic carbon from fossil fuel burning and cement production, plus an extra 1.6Gt, could be absorbed somewhere other than the atmosphere.
I am utterly amazed at how well you explained this. Even a lay-person as myself can grasp this.

I have a question that perhaps you could answer. How much co2 is in the entire earth's atmosphere? Is is a number that cannot be written in tonnes because it would be too huge?
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