Posted on 12/08/2015 9:12:06 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Oooh 0.6 degrees in 60 years, the sky is falling.
Reduce the plants.....?
Stop farming!???
BAck to the Stone Age????
Just more Bull
This feedback should have already occurred and have been predicted by their “models”.
Always, always remember what scientists and engineers call those students who had only the intellect for politics or community organizing, but somehow cheated/paid their way into passing: Climate Researchers.
Secondly, the plants need that carbon dioxide in order to do their jobs of supplying us with oxygen.
These people must think we are utter fools.
Deserts are nice and cold at night. No plants, no carbon, no nothing.
The pinheads conducting the “study” seem to have conveniently forgotten about conservation of matter. When plants ultimately die and decay, they give up all of the CO2 they “sequestered”. All of it.
We are doomed!??
fyi
Will also lead to more oxygen by that reasoning, more food by other reasoning.
Get back to me when they sucessfully model the largest “greenhouse” gas: water vapor.
The tropics become deserts. The temperate regions become tropics, the tundra sprouts trees. There is a heck of a lot of land north of the 48th parallel that would benefit by warmer temperatures and become more lush and forested rather than be tundra and steppe. So there's your carbon sink.
Make mud! Bury the plants and make more coal (oh, they'll love that!)
a rise of .6C is actually about 1.08F..........the way it's printed is comparing the temperature of .6C to the equivalent of F which is 33 degrees....If they're going to write bull crap then at least get their fraudulent facts correct.
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Trebla says:
That’s obviously ridiculous. If the amount of plant mass increases with increased CO2 levels, the plants are converting CO2 into plant matter at a greater rate, and regardless of how they breathe, more carbon is captured in the plant itself as plant matter. The plants don’t create CO2 out of nothing. For the plants to increase the atmospheric CO2 level, they would have to decrease in mass themselves which is the opposite to reality (ref. the greening of the planet and case/control studies of plant growth under enhanced CO2 levels)
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prjindigo says:
Plants and trees survive darkness by converting sugar to energy and heat, the warmer the night the LESS they need that energy for warmth. There is an effect where trees will actually protect the grass underneath them in parts of the world where frost is just an early morning event that then goes away. The trees are generating heat, the average plants DO NOT DO IT. They simply die.
Its the energy cycle of the plants. This is why in dense no-breeze conifer copses you can get that “not enough air†effect, they’ve chewed up a higher average of the ambient oxygen overnight and replaced it with a denser gas.
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TomB says:
Well, since you replied to tobyglyn’s post, I have to assume you’re one of those horrible “de-nayers†with his head in the sand. Running off on some crazy rant about “more plants means more breathing†or some-such nonsense whilst refusing to address – at all – the unicorn issue!
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Bob Burban says:
You are so wrong … 97% of scientists agree that unicorns poop diamonds
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