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Ocean Losing Its Appetite for Carbon
National Geographic News ^ | November 18, 2009 | Christine Dell'Amore

Posted on 11/26/2009 4:05:23 AM PST by steelyourfaith

The world's oceans, which normally gobble up carbon dioxide, are getting stuffed to the gills, according to the most thorough study to date of human-made carbon in the seas.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


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KEYWORDS: carbon; climategate; globalwarming
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Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory claims that "the amount of human-made carbon absorbed by the oceans fell from 27 to 24 percent." Thankfully, the "total uptake of carbon is not declining".

I guess I missed the explanation for how CULDEO is able distinguish "human-made carbon" (small point: humans don't make carbon, though they can release it) from other carbon.

Perhaps this explains the earth's eleven year cooling cycle?

Hmmmm, where the funding for this research originates. A government grant, perhaps? Just wondering.

1 posted on 11/26/2009 4:05:23 AM PST by steelyourfaith
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 11/26/2009 4:07:07 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: steelyourfaith

Liar, liar, pants on fire, your nose is longer than a telephone wire.


3 posted on 11/26/2009 4:08:57 AM PST by samtheman
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National Geographic again. This is why I let my subscription lapse. Every single story had some sort of Climate Change propaganda in it.


4 posted on 11/26/2009 4:10:37 AM PST by rhombus
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To: samtheman

So how are we doing this, farting in lakes and swimming pools?


5 posted on 11/26/2009 4:11:41 AM PST by 1776 Reborn (Test kids and politicians (bigger idiots) on the Constitution!)
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To: 1776 Reborn

I don’t believe anything they say any more on the subject of climate and weather.

When weather.com says it’s raining, you bet your sweet a$$ I look out the window and check for myself.

They are a pack of cheats, frauds and liars, all of them.


6 posted on 11/26/2009 4:13:25 AM PST by samtheman
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To: 1776 Reborn

I just love making bubbles with farts.


7 posted on 11/26/2009 4:13:50 AM PST by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: rhombus

“Every single story had some sort of Climate Change propaganda in it.”

The leftards have slimed their way into every crook and nanny of our world.

So, how do we get them out?


8 posted on 11/26/2009 4:16:37 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: steelyourfaith

Of course they get their statistics from the same place the Gooberment gets theirs: they make them up.


9 posted on 11/26/2009 4:18:21 AM PST by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: steelyourfaith

Good, that will leave more plant food for our crops.


10 posted on 11/26/2009 4:20:56 AM PST by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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I’d also like to know how they can determine the carbon source is human.

I can hear it now... Save the oceans! Now they’re the victims. Taxes will solve everything, and Pelosi will personally clean the oceans for us.


11 posted on 11/26/2009 4:20:56 AM PST by drierice
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Bring on the CO2!


12 posted on 11/26/2009 4:25:00 AM PST by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: rhombus

Its too bad, Nat Geo used to be one of the great magazines for scientific reading.


13 posted on 11/26/2009 4:25:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: drierice

Well well the Little boy who cried Wolf, (Algore)for a profit. Now ANY data will be looked at with a skeptisisum that may not be warrented. Maybe they need to triple check and then recheck to make sure that no one has a “personnal”$$$$$$$$$$agenda laced into their findings????????????


14 posted on 11/26/2009 4:28:19 AM PST by jedi150
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Old Joke:

Guy in hotel bathtub orders a sandwich from room sevice.

Bell boy arrives with sandwich and a few minutes later comes back with a bottle of beer.

Guys says, "I didn't order a beer."

Bell boy tells him yes you did, as I was leaving you said, "Hey bud bring me a bottle of Budweiser"

15 posted on 11/26/2009 4:28:48 AM PST by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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To: rhombus

Same goes for Scientific American

16 posted on 11/26/2009 4:31:08 AM PST by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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To: steelyourfaith
Increased levels of CO2 promotes diversity!

Clearly, the green revolution in agriculture has already benefitted from CO2 fertilization, and benefits in the future will be even greater. Animal life is increasing proportionally, as shown by studies of 51 terrestrial (120) and 22 aquatic ecosystems (121). Moreover, as shown by a study of 94 terrestrial ecosystems on all continents except Antarctica (122), species richness – biodiversity – is more positively correlated with productivity – the total quantity of plant life per acre – than with anything else.

Atmospheric CO2 is required for life by both plants and animals. It is the sole source of carbon in all of the protein, carbohydrate, fat, and other organic molecules of which living things are constructed.

Plants extract carbon from atmospheric CO2 and are thereby fertilized. Animals obtain their carbon from plants. Without atmospheric CO2, none of the life we see on Earth would exist.

Water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide are the three most important substances that make life possible.

They are surely not environmental pollutants.

17 posted on 11/26/2009 4:32:30 AM PST by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: listenhillary

Post 17 quoted from here http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm


18 posted on 11/26/2009 4:33:49 AM PST by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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Perhaps this explains the earth's eleven year cooling cycle?

There is such a thing? If so, I expect it's related to the eleven year sunspot cycle.

19 posted on 11/26/2009 4:38:50 AM PST by CarlosFonke
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tga


20 posted on 11/26/2009 4:42:14 AM PST by listenhillary (I believe AGW is real now. It was caused by scientists and greenies LYING!)
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