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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Weather (Off topic)
  • Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:01:31 -0500

Carbon can exist as a solid (calcium carbonate, organic material) or
a gas (carbon dioxide, methane) or a liquid (organics) The question
is how much carbon exists in what state at our time to live.

---- Original Message ----
From: matthewoller@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Weather (Off topic)
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:49:46 -0700 (PDT)

>
>location,location,location....just fix it!matt,peace
>--- On Sun, 3/29/09, william Eggers <wce1482@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>From: william Eggers <wce1482@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Weather (Off topic)
>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 9:52 AM
>
>I've always wondered about this CO2 business.  Since the earth is a
>closed system, it looks like to me that we still have the same amount
>of carbon that we have always had.  If so, how did we get so much
>more that we are worring about it?
>
>--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net>
>wrote:
>
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>From: Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Weather (Off topic)
>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 5:06 PM
>
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>Well, I had some interesting thoughts the other day.  We had cut down
>a 50 year old pine and I was thinking about how they'd used these
>impossible-to-split virginia pines for making log cabins.  Next day I
>was walking in the neighboring field and thinking about how it was
>all once virgin timber and that all the wimpy woodlands surrounding
>it were huge old trees before the white man came.  Then I wondered,
>"Where are those trees now?"  All the timber that was cut down not
>just the first time, but all the times since, where did they go? 
>Where are the houses, the barns, the fences that were built with
>them?  Most have rotted away or burnt down, and they are now existing
>as CO2 and water and some minerals in the soil or most likely in the
>ocean.  What does THAT do to global temps?  I am only too aware of
>what it does when you chop down all the trees and have exposed soil
>or pavement or
> house roofs.  But the difference between the amount of carbon that
>was in trees, not to mention what was in the rich organic matter
>content of the soil... all that must be in the atmosphere now.  Donna
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