I also wonder if plants do not serve as a forcing factor on carbon in the atmosphere. Its well known (albeit blasphemous to the agw cult) that carbon makes much more plant life grow...and thus supports more life of all kinds on this planet (including endangered species). But somebody help me out here...when the plants and animals die, I am under the impression that although most of that carbon makes it back to the atmosphere, a minority is lost to the atmosphere and instead ends up trapped in the ground far enough down that it leaves the cycle.
So I wonder if more carbon in the atmosphere causes more carbon to be so lost?
AndyTheBear,
I kind of think that the more global warming, the more topography expands, the more plant life expands and of course animal life. The two cycles, carbon and nitrate work together as the topography moves north and south as the earth cools and warms.