Re: FW: - Climate Change Hearings and the roll(?) of nuclear power

[Kai Kaletsch <info@eic.nu>]

Absolutely nothing to do with radiation, but one of my pet peeves:



> Less CO2 leaves the USA on our east coast than enters on west because our

> forests absorb more than our cars produce.



Most mature forests do NOT absorb CO2. (Where is the carbon supposed to go?)

There are a few swampy places where the forests are making peat, but a

forest in equilibrium cannot absorb CO2. CO2 is absorbed by wheat fields.

The O2 is released and C is shipped off in the wheat. (Of course the C gets

released when someone eats the wheat)



Kai



PS: Just to make it relevant to the list: Wheat fields also release a lot of

radon. That's why more radon leaves the USA than enters it.



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