Posted on 05/19/2007 6:53:31 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
ENVIRONMENT: Southern Ocean Nears CO2 Saturation Point Stephen Leahy
BROOKLIN, Canada, May 17 (IPS) - Climate change has arrested the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, researchers announced Thursday.
That will make it more difficult to stabilise carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere and to reduce the risks of extreme forms of global warming....
(Excerpt) Read more at ipsnews.net ...
Toooo funny! Looks like they had to come up with some more computer models FAST in order to reverse what other computer models predicted 6 months ago.
Southern Ocean Could Slow Global Warming
Science Daily ^ | 12-5-2006 | University Of Arizona
Posted on 12/05/2006 6:41:48 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748976/posts
The Southern Ocean may slow the rate of global warming by absorbing significantly more heat and carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to new research.
....The new finding surprised the scientists, said lead researcher Joellen L. Russell. “We think it will slow global warming. It won’t reverse or stop it, but it will slow the rate of increase.”
The new model Russell and her colleagues developed provides a realistic simulation of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies and Southern Ocean circulation.
Previous climate models did not have the winds properly located. In simulations of present-day climate, those models distorted the ocean’s response to future increases in greenhouse gases. ..
The current set of computer models that scientists use to predict future climate differ in the degree to which heat is sequestered by the Southern Ocean. The models vary in how they represent the behavior of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the largest current on the planet.
Stouffer said, “The poleward intensification of the westerlies will allow the ocean to remove additional heat and anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Thus, the deep ocean has the potential to slow the atmospheric warming through the increased storage of heat and carbon.” ...”
Aha, you’ve really got him ‘running scared’ now!! VERY cute.
The Polar bear was yours to begin with and Seadog made a great ‘running Gore’, lol.
Lol, devolve likes to speed things up!
The Polar Bear was 6 frames
GoreRun was 4 frames
Combining made algore 6 frames
I also radically cut colors on GoreRun first down to 6-C
The Delay = 6 now on both
To not mess up the finished .gif I’d have to reset the Delay on the Pplar Bear first to a slower delay
I can make that produce some wild back and forth action pretty quickly - while slowing algore down a bunch
He does have that “to-much-coffee” look there
(try the 2 “links” at top of my profile page with speakers up loud - first the “Gyro.gif” - then the “Chockfulla.gif” below it)
http://freerepublic.com/~devolve
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I’ll give it a quick shot on a 2nd version
It would be like a giant bottle of salty seltzer water?
Human caused Global Warming is junk, but global warming is happening, has happened before, and with luck will happen again. I worry more about the rapid cooling that seems to follow these long warming trends. I'd just as soon not be turned into an instant TV dinner.
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Just for the fun of it, I did an online search for each of the two scenarios. The one that said the Southern Ocean will absorb more CO2, and the one that says it is already saturated. Guess which one is getting all the attention in the media? The second one, of course. I could`nt find a single newspaper article that mentioned the model that said the ocean will absorb more CO2. No media bias, eh?
Mr. Haney. lol I love that shyster!
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