Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/11/2009 9:18:58 AM PST by Ben Mugged
New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.
This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected.
The results run contrary to a significant body of recent research which expects that the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans to absorb CO2 should start to diminish as CO2 emissions increase, letting greenhouse gas levels skyrocket. Dr Wolfgang Knorr at the University of Bristol found that in fact the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has only been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade, which is essentially zero.
The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
UhOh.....
Oh, the Earth can absorb C02 with no problems....trees actually need it. It’s the Bull$hit that the earth and its people are having a hard time absorbing!
CO2 is absorbed by trees and produces oxygen. Humans absorb oxygen and produce CO2 for the trees.
A perfectly working system government wants to take over as well.
Controversial with whom? Story doesn’t say scientists are questioning the validity of the data. Why exactly does a magazine that calls itself “Science Daily” concern itself with petty politicians?
Yes! They should have listened to me. I made this observation after looking at vegetation growing along highways. LOL! My science was better than the scam science.
Oh, the Earth can absorb C02 with no problems....trees actually need it. It’s the Bull$hit that the earth and its people are having a hard time absorbing!People forget that Oxygen is basically a poison. We've evolved to live in plant poop.
There's an interesting meme going around that the evolutionary result of human existence will be the reintegration of carbon into the atmosphere(since plants take the carbon and emit the oxides), bringing about a entirely new era in the world's evolution.
Oh Good! Back to the Backyard Barbeque ...
more new reseach:
new research9 i don’t have time to post):
“Across the U.S. as a whole, approximately 50 percent of the warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes (usually in the form of clearing forest for crops or cities) rather than to the emission of greenhouse gases,” said Stone. “Most large U.S. cities, including Atlanta, are warming at more than twice the rate of the planet as a whole – a rate that is mostly attributable to land use change....”
http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=47354
“Research from the Universities of Maryland and Colorado, in addition to Purdue University, has found that a majority of land-use changes in the continental U.S. reduce vegetative cover and raise regional surface temperatures.”
http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2009/11/impact_of_landuse_changes_on_c_1.html#comments
The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models.
You read it here on Free Republic: the "global climate models," are GIGO. Unless they can repeat the climatic and carbon dioxide variations of the last 500 million years on Earth (roughly the era of terrestrial photosynthesis and vertebrate development) starting from a given set of initial conditions they are totally bogus. Carbon Dioxide levels have been well above present during that span, which means prodigious negative feedback pathways, not even approached in the GCM's, have always existed, vis-a-vis this article.
I know people who work on the GCM's, and believe me they ain't no geniuses. And subconsciously more interested in their careers than objective analysis.
"- the science is in" - Barack Obama
Johnny Suntrade
The Suntrade Institute
This dovetails with the FR post yesterday:
Melting ice sheets create new carbon sink, say boffins
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:53:21 AM · 17 of 25
The phenomenon of oceans absorbing excess C02 has been known for decades. The ENTIRE ocean is a huge reservoir for excess carbon sink or absorption, not just the ice-free polar zones. As ocean waters warm, you always have algae blooms and the microscopic plants that require C02 for photosynthesis. The carrying capacity of the oceans to absorb excess C02 is 100’s of times greater than the atmosphere because of these microscopic plants. This is just another scientific fact to disprove the C02 global warming hysteria.
The earth is a highly complex bio-diversity engine. The global warming fanatics are nothing but eco-religious zealots and their arguments have no basis in facts or scientific theory.
Wow! Do you suppose climate-alarmatologists are finally going to be forced to confront the basic high school chemistry concept of EQUILIBRIUM?
Was there a shortage of CO2 during the "Little Ice Age"? I'm thinking there was, as Al Gore had not been born yet.
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