Examples for water and carbon

• NPP grams per meters squared. TR: 2500, TG: 550
• Giga tonnes of Carbon: TR: 550, TG: 185
• Carbon in the soil, tonnes per hectare. TR: 40, TG: 200
• 3% of earths water is freshwater and less than 1% of this is readily accessible for human use.
• Cryosphere: ice and water in a solid form, makes up 69% of all freshwaters.
• Oceans: 1,370,000

  Atmosphere: 13,000

  Land: 36,000

  Precipitation: 386

  Evaporation: 425

  Land precipitation: 111

  Evapotranspiration: 71

  Runoff groundwater flow: 40

  thousands of KM3
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  12% of the worlds population consumes 85% of the worlds water

  1.8 billion people lack clean drinking water.
• Land to atmosphere pathways (carbon cycle) : respiration 60 GTC, soil respiration (decomposition) 60 GTC, fossil fuel combustion 10 GTC, land degradation 1 GTC.
• Atmosphere to land pathways (carbon cycle): photosynthesis 120, carbon capture 0.1 GTC
• Ocean to atmosphere pathways (carbon cycle): ocean loss (occurs more in warmer, rough conditions)
• Key stores in the carbon cycle: biomass 560, Soils 1,500, atmosphere 750, Oceans 38,000, Earth’s crust 100,000,000 (Giga tonnes of carbon)
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  Photosynthesis

  In this process carbon is sequestered as much as 120 giga tonnes a year with about 610 being stored each year.

  Carbon fixation: turning co2 into living organic compounds that grow.
• About 50 gigatons of carbon is drawn into the bio pump each year but only a small fraction makes it to the sea floor. 
• 3 billion tonnes in UK peat 

  A huge carbon store beneath your feat

  If lost just 5% 

  It would be the same extent.

  As the UKs greenhouse gas emissions

  Restore the peat make it your mission. 

   

  Fens saturated by a high water table 

  Blanket bogs, hill tops where able 

  Raised bogs form where the run off pools 

  Restore the peat don’t be a fool 
• Only 20% of UK peat is not degraded. 
• Over 190 billion tonnes of carbon will be released by melting permafrost.