leaf litter – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png leaf litter – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Mercury, the other geologically persistent planetary poison https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/mercury-other-geologically-persistent-planetary-poison/ Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:35:23 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/mercury-other-geologically-persistent-planetary-poison/ by David Archer

The thing that really gets me in the gut about global warming from fossil fuel combustion is how long it will last. Carbon mined from the deep Earth and injected into the “fast carbon cycle” of the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface will continue to affect atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and climate, for hundreds of thousands of years into the future, unless we clean up the atmosphere ourselves.]]> by David Archer

The thing that really gets me in the gut about global warming from fossil fuel combustion is how long it will last. Carbon mined from the deep Earth and injected into the “fast carbon cycle” of the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface will continue to affect atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and climate, for hundreds of thousands of years into the future, unless we clean up the atmosphere ourselves.

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