Posted on 11/19/2008 2:58:38 PM PST by decimon
Given the fact that Washington is run by “environmentalists” who want their way or the highway, people hoping to get wealthy from “alternative energy”, and politicians who want to insure their seats at the center of power, this study will be so totally ignored it wasn’t worth the effort.
"It's worse than that, Al; Warmimg is dead!"
What makes it 'worse than predicted' is that things are better than predicted.
Worst case scenario: things cool down (as has been happpening), dropping the bottom out of carbon-credit scams and AGW shakedowns.
As a result of global warming, soils are expected to release more carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere, which, in turn, creates more warming. Climate models try to incorporate these increases of carbon dioxide from soils as the planet warms, but results vary greatly when realistic estimates of black carbon in soils are included in the predictions, the study found.
If CO^2 has to be in the upper atmosphere to have any real effect; and CO^2 is heavier than air, then isn't most or all of the CO^2 from the soil either retained in the soil, or utilized by plants growing in or on that soil, with little of it reaching an effective altitude?
Naturally, surface wind mixing occurs, etc.; but, what is releasing the CO^2 (not forming it) from the soil into the atmosphere?
You're expecting a serious answer from me? Ha ha ha ha ;-)
Stranger things have happened on this old server.
Why it gots to be Black?
Interesting. An outright lie, apparently intended to offset the possibility that the overestimation mentioned earlier might bring global warming into doubt.
Or is it intended to show loyalty and avoid a backlash?
I think you have to get that in. Like a 'Hail Caesar!' or some such.
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