ABSTRACT
The study of the global carbon cycle, representing the transport of carbon-containing material between the major global reservoirs, is an intriguing object of study. More than ever, the field has become important in the last few decades for policy makers, due to the climatic influences that anthropogenic action is having on the global carbon cycle. The main causes of anthropogenic disturbance of the natural global carbon cycle is CO2 production by the combustion of fossil fuels and changes in land use. The equilibrium reservoirs that were initially evident, namely oceanic exchange, plant photosynthesis and soil respiration, were far too small to account for this exchange capacity. It took several years of speculation and computation leading the exchange capacity in clouds, fog and precipitation in general, until it was learnt from plant physiologists that much more CO2 comes into contact with leaf water than actually is taken up by the plant in photosynthesis.
