I get to be first?
WE ARE DOOMED!/sarcasm alert
In other news, studies of climate studies suggest climate studies on fast track to nowhere.
I wish it would hurry up. I am old and cold.
...James Zachos, professor of Earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz...
The Santa Cruz part should tell you all you need to know about the scientific objectivity of this latest 'report'.
I think comparing human activity today against human activity 55 million years ago may not be scientifically accurate.
"Previous estimates put the amount of released carbon at 2 trillion tons, but Zachos showed that more than twice that amount--about 4.5 trillion tons.."
So they were off by more than a factor of 2. But I'm sure that ~now~ they got everything right... /sarc
"James Zachos, professor of Earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz."
Enough said.... by professor at socialist university of Santa Cruz. He undoubtedly came to these scholarly conclusions in between tokes on his bong.
Buncha crap.
"Once the carbon is released into the atmosphere, it takes a long time for natural mechanisms, such as ocean absorption and rock weathering, to remove excess carbon from the air and store it in the soil and marine sediments."
Nonsense. Absolute, complete, utter, incalculably incorrect nonsense.
Carbon dioxide is continuously removed from the atmosphere by plants, which use it to form sugars to store energy from sunlight. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more plant biomass, which consumes more carbon dioxide, which makes less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Be careful what you read. Most journalists never made it past their fourth grade science classes.
Sea level rising is the most catastrophic thing, particularly if it occurs quickly, like in a year or two.
Which makes it even more senseless to rebuild New Orleans now, along with the billions of dollars Louisiana is costing the taxpayers otherwise.
Relocate if you're on a coastline, to at least five feet higher than where you are now...not like anyone has not been warned.
I think a barge is a far better investment on any coastal area, if not a boat altogether, for those of us who love the ocean and coastal living. Things are going to change and soon, as to sea level and New Orleans is hardly an isolated catastrophe, I am thinking.
But this fails to answer the critical question - was the release the cause of the warming? Or an effect of the warming?
No one considers that as the CO2 level increases and as temperature increases then so too does the photosynthetic efficiency of plants.
So scientists have determined that past climate change is entirely a function of emissions. Sounds like a emission to me....
The greeny's PR houses are cranking out this crap all this week in tune with the first anniversary of the so-called implementation of the so-called Kyoto Accords that nobody is honoring.
Well, if the scientists say it, then I have to accept it. Although I'll no doubt be ridiculed, I do not have the independent training to argue the findings or the math or the models. (In other words, I have the wrong graduate degree to talk to scientists.)
Everyone says global warming is a fact, especially scientists. People who are skeptical about it are derided as ignorant. So I'm sticking with the scientists on this one. Global warming is a fact, people. We need to do everything the scientists tell us to do in order to save our planet. We need to cut out on emissions that cause greenhouse gases... or whatever.
Is this just another leftist professor trying another angle on their dogma that blames man for climate change? More nonsense from the pagans.