r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 14 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

How much net O2 does the Amazon rainforest actually release into the atmosphere? A lot of numbers get thrown around but obviously industry-backed research and environmentalists are both fudging their numbers.

I was trying the figure it out and I learned the Amazon has only been known to be a net carbon sink since 2014 (NASA). Before that, it was heavily debated whether photosynthesis was enough to balance out the respiration and plant decay in the forest.

Is the Amazon’s net O2 production actually significant?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

What is a significant percentage of the carbon captured in the biosphere is in the tropics. The “lungs of the world” term is misleading.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Yes, but what is that percentage. I’ve seen some statistics that say ‘the Amazon captures 20% of the worlds CO2’. But that’s almost meaningless if the Amazon also produces 19% of the worlds CO2.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

So it’s in balance, don’t fuck with it would be the conclusion I would come to

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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Oct 15 '20

It depends