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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND carbon sequestration AND climate AND deforestation
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Comic Re-Leaf
On plants and global warming |
Umbra Fisk |
03 Apr 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, My simple understanding of global warming is that we are introducing long-buried carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is shifting the balance, leading to a host of undesirable issues. CO2 is consumed by plants, so here's my thought: Could we grow crops that consume a lot of CO2 (I'm thinking bamboo here, which grows really quickly) and then bury them, effectively taking the CO2 they've consumed out of the atmosp ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, carbon sequestration, climate, deforestation (all these topics) |
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