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Origins of Carbon Monoxide (Life Sciences)
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Ishmael


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The two maps below show carbon monoxide distribution over the globe. The first map illustrates this distribution in April. The second in October.



The first thing I noticed about these maps is the apparent correlation between high concentrations of CO1 and lush vegetation.

The second thing I noticed is that carbon monoxide levels are highest in warm weather. When it's spring in the north, there's CO1 in the north. When it's spring in the south, there's CO1 in the south.

What are we to conclude other than that carbon monoxide is produced in greatest quantity by something plants are doing when they are most active? Human "pollution" is of no consequence.
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Ishmael


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Experts say that carbon monoxide emissions in summer months come from fires.

That's an awful lot of fire there in the Amazon Rainforest.
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Turns out that CO2 may also be emerging from the rainforests.



How could rainforest produce CO2? ANd why then wouldn't the levels be high above the Congo? Difficult to make sense of the image.

Nevertheless, someone else has come to the same conclusion as I have: That the official line on all of this is total bullshit.
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If forests are belching out carbon dioxide, what effect would this have if any vis-a-vis typhoons, hurricanes etc?

It seems that scientists are unanimously agreed that CO2 is responsible for acidifying the ocean. An alarming-sounding but apparently under-researched subject, though not exactly on-topic here perhaps.

The Royal Society will be discussing the issue in February https://royalsociety.org/events/2015/01/cafe-ocean-acidification/
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Groundwater becomes acidified prior to an earthquake. The behaviour of amphibians and reptiles has been observed to change dramatically in the weeks beforehand, such as snakes coming out of hibernation in China or, in the case of L'Aquila in Italy, toads leaving their breeding site on an island but returning after the earthquake. No longer dismissed as merely folklore, it's presumed they were particularly sensitive to carbon monoxide altering the water chemistry; their breeding area was saturated as per normal rainfall (they breed in the rainy season), perhaps the rise in CO in the groundwater was plant-produced.

It'd be interesting to see if more earthquakes occur in rainy seasons and where susceptible areas lie in relation to forests. Trouble is, maps of earthquake distribution seem to just reproduce maps of plates.
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Ishmael


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Such impressive thinking Hatty! Right or wrong, I'm loving the thoughtfulness. Fantastic.
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Carbon monoxide should not be present in rainforests, unless a forest fire is burning, because plants oxidise CO and convert it to carbon dioxide. Before natural gas, coal gas was used and said to have created the old pea-soup smog due to the amount of CO released.

In soil too, CO "rapidly oxidises to form carbon dioxide" through the action of soil bacteria [or could soil bacteria have some role in producing CO?].

Water may be a medium in which carbon monoxide is able to exist though chemists say microorganisms in water also oxidise CO into CO2. CO is poisonous to fish as well as to animals and humans and fish have been seen trying to leap out of the sea before an earthquake.
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Hatty wrote:
Carbon monoxide should not be present in rainforests, unless a forest fire is burning, because plants oxidise CO and convert it to carbon dioxide.


So plants convert carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide? But don't plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen? That would mean that plants can transform carbon monoxide ultimately into oxygen. Right?
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It would appear you're right and it's surely a hugely important conclusion.

Strange that biologists or earth scientists don't seem to have paid much attention to this cycle. Perhaps there are too many different splits in climate science, the classical elements of earth, air, fire and water still seem to pertain albeit under scientific-sounding names.
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Hatty wrote:
Perhaps there are too many different splits in climate science, the classical elements of earth, air, fire and water still seem to pertain albeit under scientific-sounding names.


How so?
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Until now atmospheric scientists and hydrology scientists haven't collaborated. With 'climate change' at the top of the agenda, there seems to be more scope for overlapping studies.
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