New version, july 2017

Carbon is an essential element for life on Earth.
It is totally absurd to pretend that emitting it into the atmosphere in the form of CO₂ is a dirty, polluting act.

On the site climate-mr-int.ch, I demonstrate that the climate is much less sensitive to it than what is pretended as a dogma since more than thirty years (see here).

Having made this point, I should avoid analysing what happens with CO₂, since it has only a minor importance.
Nevertheless, I find it adequate to look, once more, at orders of magnitude.

Thus I have written an essay on the fate of carbon after it will have been extracted from oil, gas or coal reserves.
In summary:

• CO₂ atmospheric concentration correlates extremely well with the accumulated burning of fossil fuels;
• the more we emit carbon the more the system sequesters it, definitively;
• currently, about half of what is emitted every year remains in the air, the other half accumulates in the oceans and as land biomass;
• the whole system churns CO₂ in a rather fast way;
• For each ton of carbon emitted, a wealth of 190 USD is created (constant 2010 $).

Here again some original diagrams are presented, showing for example that a lesser proportion of the emitted carbon remains in the atmosphere when the CO₂ increases.

 

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