GEOG 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carbon Offset

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 2110
• Professor: Ben Bradshaw

Document Summary

Lab 2: the carbon cycle: based on figure 4-3 above, calculate the total rate of change and the average residence time for each of the six main carbon reservoirs. The reason for this is because there are more exchanges of carbon happening within the atmosphere than within other reservoirs of carbon. The reservoir most influenced by the sun is vegetation consider they use the solar rays to create their own energy through photosynthesis. If there was a lower about of radiative waves coming from the sun then the size of the reservoir would be smaller from the smaller amount of green vegetation, such as bushes and grasses. These calculation state that carbon flux deposited into the air can be absorbed naturally through plants and recycled into the soil as energy. They suggest that in order to to fix the carbon offset created by anthropogenic sources, there must be an increase the amount of trees and plants.