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Originally Posted by freebeard

That's half a cite, do you have a page number or pull quote?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younge...2Black_mats%22

The link provides argument both pro and con.

1) From World Almanac: Earth's mean radius= 3,958.8-miles.
2) From World Almanac: Earth's total surface area = 196,941,384.7-square-miles.
3) From NATURE, VOL 400, 15 July, 1999:
Earth's 'world forest equivalent' ( wfe ) = 18,801,424.27-square-miles ( of 100-year-old Oak forest carbon dioxide from oxidation ).
4) From the book, 'Too Smart for our own Good,' by Craig Dilworth, pp.311-357, the carbon dioxide emitted annually, from man's combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas, is equivalent to that emitted from combusting 18.4 wfe, or 345,956,206.6-square-miles of oak forest, divided by 196,941,384.7-square-miles/ per Earth's surface area, = 1.7565 - 'Earth' surface areas combusted/ year. One and three-quarters 'planets' 'burned' per year.