Talk:Climate Change/Mitigation Strategies/Carbon Sinks

(I have trouble understanding this information. Is Limestone carbon dioxide?  If so, would the following arrangement of words better convey the information?)


 * Limestone is one form of carbon sink as it consists largly of carbon dioxide and calcium. Limestone is generated as the ocean organisms generated their microscopic shells, which eventually collect on the ocean bottom and are pressed into the rock-like substance.

(If the foregoing is true, then some explanation is needed here as to how removal of carbon dioxide and calcium from sea water causes the following to occur. Does more carbon dioxide content require more calcium content?  Does less oxygen content require more calcium?)

As the ocean get more carbon dioxide mixed in it, rather than oxygen, then it tends to re-dissolve the limestone back into carbon dioxide and dissolved calcium.


 * Soil humus and peat is another form of carbon sink. Though it has been noted that in some types of warmer climate conditions soil humus is broken down faster than it forms.