• Question: Where do we put all the carbon?

    Asked by Gabriele to Ben, Francis, Max on 15 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Ben Mulhearn

      Ben Mulhearn answered on 15 Mar 2018:

      Which carbon do you mean, specifically? Nature has been putting carbon back into the ground (from dead plants and animals) for many millions of years. It is only humans in the last few hundred years who have been digging this up (in the form of coal) and burning it for energy. The only problem with this is it takes no time to release carbon by burining coal, but many millions of years to put it back into the ground. One way we could get rid of carbon in the atmosphere is planting more forests.

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