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If we presume we're at equilibrium now, and total methane emission (natural + human) are about 600 Tg, then our sink is about 600 Tg, so 600 = k*1. 8ppm.

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  1. intransitive verb To descend to the bottom; submerge.
  2. intransitive verb To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages: The water in the lake sank several feet during the long, dry summer.
  3. intransitive verb To subside or settle gradually, as a massive or weighty structure.
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  • So foraging acts as a sink, and the ants inside the nest act as a source. —  Deborah Gordon digs ants
  • It was a long-term sink, not a new one; light came down, and vines grew everywhere. —  Vale of the Vole
  • You called Vietnam Veterans "baby killers" but think that allowing a woman to suck her baby into a sink is a constitutionally protected right. —  AllDeaf.com
  • Underneath the sink was a rolling, Tiffany-blue ottoman. —  NYT > Travel
  • It can't and it doesn't and I'm tired of constantly dropping things in the sink because the little bit of available space around the sink is actually CURVED. —  SumSumSummertime
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  1. Middle English sinken, from Old English sincan.

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  1. Formerly also sinck; (a) from Middle English sinken, synken, intransitive (preterit sank, sonk, plural sunken, sonken, past participle sunken, sonken, sonk), from Anglo-Saxon sincan, intransitive (preterit sanc, plural suncon, past participle suncen), =Old Saxon sinkan =D. zinken =Middle Low German Low German sinken =Old High German sinchan, Middle High German G. sinken =Icelandic sökkra (for *sönkra) =Swedish sjunka =Danish synke =Gothic (Moesogothic) sigkwan, gkwan (for *sinkwan, *singkwan), sink; (b) from Middle English *senken, senchen, from Anglo-Saxon sencan, transitive, cause to sink (=Old Saxon senkian =Old High German senchan, Middle High German G. senken =Swedish sänka =Danish sænke =Gothic (Moesogothic) saggkwan, cause to sink, immerse), causal of sincan, sink; prob. a nasalized form of the root appearing in Sanskrit as sich (nasalized present siñcati), pour out, and in Anglo-Saxon *sīhan, sīgan, etc., let fall, sink: see sie, sile.
  2. from Middle English synke (=Middle Dutch sinke); from the verb.
 

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