Posted on 05/24/2017 9:40:37 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Scientists apparently can't predict where forests are right now, but weather patterns one hundred years from now, no problem. Some things were never suitable for a 'free market' and CO2 is one of them
People are willing to set up a two trillion dollar global market to read carbon, but their carbon models are so primitive that giant ‘oops’ moments are now happening on a regular basis reports Joanne Nova.
A Yale-led study in 2015 estimated that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, about seven and a half times more than some previous estimates. Previously, the only global estimate was just over 400 billion trees worldwide, or about 61 trees for every person on Earth. The Yale study used a combination of appaoiches to reveal that there are 3 trillion trees—roughly 422 trees per person.
I have 300+ trees here on my property I planted myself (Okay, I hired a landscaper to plant the first seven).
Now there's a figure that Trump and conservatives ought to be citing all the time:
"Our national debt is over six times larger than the number of trees on our entire planet."
That sounds like justification for his budget reduction of 30+% for EPA!
And without all of the “polluting CO2” what will the trees take in to produce oxygen? CO2 is NECESSARY for plant live, thus is not a pollutant.
You Bet!
How many carbon credits do they have to buy when they remove a dam and replace the electricity with fossil fuel generation? I never hear that discussed.
Are the computer models being used to predict gloom and doom using the erroneous 400 billion tree number when calculating the CO2 sequestration from trees? What happens to the computer models when they increase this number by a factor of 10?
The greatest moderator of CO2 are foraminiphera. These are single celled organisms that float in our lakes and rivers and most importantly the oceans. There cells are carbonates. When they die their very tiny shells settle to the bottom of the ocean. Their shells are made of calcium and CO2 that comes from the atmosphere. They sequester carbon dioxide. We have mountains that are thousands of feet in height made of this Calcium Carbonate. We have sedimentary layers beneath the surface of the earth that are many times greater than our mountains made from the same calcium carbonate that are but microscopic shells of these microscopic foraminophera.
The importance of my missive is that the global warming models do not even consider this huge carbon dioxide sequestering that is the greatest of all.
What I am really trying to say is the Global Warming Models are crap science. They do not even call it global warming anymore but they call it “climate change.” The reason they do this is they know their scientific modeling and computer projections are wrong. Actually they are no longer scientists but merely charlatans on the payroll of political activists.
I am a scientist. It really hurts when you have a concept and devote a great deal of your time and efforts to proving your hypothesis and determine you are wrong.
A ethical scientist publishes his theory and then with research proves it and most disheartening publishes why he was wrong. That my friend is real science.
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As a totally boring aside I had some concepts about clay chemistry that were totally wrong. By my research I did discover something unique that I did share with my professors. I did not publish as I wanted to get back to the oilfield and make money. Publishing is a total pain in the ass.
I was pleased to see other geologists did my same research and published my original findings. Hats off to them as they did the exact same research as I with the same conclusions. I made the best choice and went back to the oilfield and got rich until 1983 when the oilfield went south. Today I am a pharmacist and thankfully retired.
It has been a damn good ride!
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