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Originally Posted by wodin
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Biomass? And there is a difference? Scientific balderdash!
Converting hydrocarbons into CO2 is the exact same process whether the hydrocarbons were fixed from CO2 by last year's corn crop or in the geological past. It still means there is less carbon fixed in "biomass" and more free carbon in the atmosphere.
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Co2 is Co2 whatever age it is.
The argument is whether releasing this years' or last years' is significantly important when marked against what was captured by vegetation millions of years ago.