There is only one goddess Gaia and Al Gore is her only prophet...

[kandrathe]

It does make things extra worse when those deposits loose some of their storing capacity, ofcourse, as the article indicated.

Wait. Think about this first. How does the ocean sequester carbon? Yes, there is an increase in carbonic acids, but they are then available for marine and plant life to convert into carbon bearing minerals (phytoplankton, shells, bones, corals, hydrates, etc). So, now, how would this process reach a storing capacity? I could see that the rate of storage might reach a limit, however, I don't think there is a limit on the size of coral reefs, hydrates, or the detritus of dead organisms that might accumulate on the ocean floor.

Now, consider, terrestrial sequestration. It is the same issue. We are reducing the amount of land used to naturally sequester carbon, however, farm land in fact converts CO2 through plants into denser forms which are transported away from that area. In many areas, this requires the use of petrochemicals to re-fertilize the land. Perhaps the issue would be that these farm products are too quickly returned back into CO2 through respiration, decomposition, ignition, or other chemical processes. However, again, I fail to see how soil can reach a limit in carbon sequestration lest the entirety be akin to peat bogs and ultra rich soil (quite the opposite in fact). I would say, in fact, we have lowered the normal carbon sequestration of the land well below what it is capable of bearing. I believe the worldwide practice of sound land management techniques would allow a very large increase in sequestration of atmospheric CO2, coupled with a large increase in land fertility.