THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM

I've come to realize that to properly address the Global Warming problem, there are some very fundamental questions that need to be answered. Perhaps the answers have been found and are written somewhere but I've never seen or heard them. So--I'll lay these out as they come to me.

1. What is the total amount of carbon in, on and around the earth?
2. In what forms and percentages does this carbon exist?
3. What sort of natural carbon cycles exist?
4. What chemicals are there that will bind easily to carbon and hold it in a form that sequesters it from the atmosphere.
5. How available are these carbon-binding compounds and elements and where are they?
6. How easily are they obtained and used to sequester carbon?