> He is saying that Amazon rainforest O2 production and consumption are in equilibrium. where? > net O2 production and net CO2 sequestration strongly correlat

> He is saying that Amazon rainforest O2 production and consumption are in equilibrium. where? > net O2 production and net CO2 sequestration strongly correlate with one another. yes, but we have ~500 times more O2 than CO2 in the atmosphere so the effects on atmospheric composition are not anywhere close to equivalent. edit: Let me put it another way. We have so much oxygen that if we were to use any significant amount (say 1%) of that oxygen burning sequestered carbon (rainforests, oil, etc) we would have increased the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by something like ~2000% (and would already be totally screwed in many, many ways)