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Arctic fires could have climate impact
UPI.com ^ | July 28, 2011

Posted on 07/29/2011 8:39:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WOODS HOLE, Mass -- A dramatic loss of carbon in a 2007 wildfire on Alaska's North Slope could have a profound impact on possible climate change, U.S. researchers say.

Woods Hole Institute scientist Goiter Shaver and colleagues say the blaze on the slopes of Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range released 20 times more carbon into the atmosphere than what is annually lost from undisturbed tundra.

An increase in the frequency and size of wildfires in the region may release large amounts of the greenhouse gas CO2 to the atmosphere and accelerate the transformation of the frozen, treeless tundra of today into a different kind of ecosystem less capable of storing carbon, researchers said. This could have profound implications for atmospheric carbon and climate, a Woods Hole release said Thursday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; hoax; socialism
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To: FairWitness

Yep, this century is way of the 1st. 11 yrs. of the last one in producing horsesh-t. We win hands down.


21 posted on 07/29/2011 9:18:22 AM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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To: OldNavyVet

“Sorry to say, but this kind of environmental BS wins Nobel prizes.”

And Federal Govt. funding grants.


22 posted on 07/29/2011 9:33:51 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: WayneS

I bet I wasn’t the only one that burst out laughing at “Goiter Shaver”. Holy smokes!!! Who the heck names a kid “Goiter”? Shaver puts the cherry on top too!


23 posted on 07/29/2011 9:36:30 AM PDT by rockvillem
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24 posted on 07/29/2011 12:23:27 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Goiter Shaver"

YHGTBK...

25 posted on 07/29/2011 6:19:48 PM PDT by TXnMA (There is no Constitutional right to NOT be offended.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel
Note: this topic is from July 29, 2011.
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Woods Hole Institute scientist Goiter Shaver and colleagues say the blaze on the slopes of Alaska's Brooks Mountain Range released 20 times more carbon into the atmosphere than what is annually lost from undisturbed tundra... and accelerate the transformation of the frozen, treeless tundra of today into a different kind of ecosystem less capable of storing carbon, researchers said.
That's remarkably stupid, even by the (lack of) standards of the global warming demagogues.


26 posted on 10/30/2011 6:26:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
Thanx for the ping SunkenCiv !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

27 posted on 10/30/2011 6:53:56 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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