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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Controlling the greenhouse effect required finding a place to put all the extra carbon people were producing. When Petra looked around, she found the answer staring in her face.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Analog, 1991
Fictionwise Release Date: February 2005

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Words: 2871
Reading time: 8-11 min.
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"What puzzles me," said Alice as she picked at her salad, "is where the extra carbon goes. The carbon dioxide budget must have been balanced before people messed it up. Clearing forests, burning fossil fuels, and other human activities add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. But your model adds a lot more carbon dioxide than measured increase."

I nodded glumly as I chewed my alfalfa sprouts. My global carbon-cycle project was not going well. The computer model was supposed to be my stepping stone from a postdoc to a permanent job. Yet even the university's most powerful Cray couldn't make the numbers add up. "At least it isn't removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere," I reminded her.