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Melting ice sheets create new carbon sink, say boffins
The Register (UK) ^ | 10th November 2009 10:59 GMT | Lewis Page

Posted on 11/10/2009 11:19:57 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 11/10/2009 11:19:59 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: steelyourfaith

fyi


2 posted on 11/10/2009 11:20:50 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...melting ice has exposed an area of seawater the size of Wales (24,000 km2)...

That is one hell of an anti-carbon footprint.

3 posted on 11/10/2009 11:21:25 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; markomalley; scripter; proud_yank; grey_whiskers; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

4 posted on 11/10/2009 11:22:05 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Can we throw Al Gore into the carbon sink and see if he floats?


5 posted on 11/10/2009 11:23:22 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Those unintended consequences will get you every time.


6 posted on 11/10/2009 11:24:29 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Buff Boffins on Baffin See Light for Puffins?.................


7 posted on 11/10/2009 11:32:22 AM PST by Red Badger (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

It’s those boffins again.


8 posted on 11/10/2009 11:33:09 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m always chuffed when I see the yobs at the Register use terms like “boffins.”


9 posted on 11/10/2009 11:33:22 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I have these carbon credits for sale, just $20/ton.


10 posted on 11/10/2009 11:34:09 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: Red Badger

LOL...!

Did you do time on the Register?


11 posted on 11/10/2009 11:34:56 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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I have these carbon credits for sale, just $20/ton.

Well good luck with that. I just em on EBAY at 4.95/ton. Looks like the market is tanking. Will be in penny stock territory before you know it.

12 posted on 11/10/2009 11:38:39 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I had to look it up:

Boffin: a person engaged in scientific or technical research : a computer boffin.

13 posted on 11/10/2009 11:47:54 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

marking....


14 posted on 11/10/2009 11:48:04 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: east1234
I have these carbon credits for sale, just $20/ton.

You know, I think that a "tonne" is a metric ton, 1000 kGrams, or 2200 pounds.

So, if you bought them by the tonne, and sold them by the ton, you might make a killing...

15 posted on 11/10/2009 11:50:05 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

One of a great many “negative feedback” climate mechanisms, which the AGW alarmists deny exist.


16 posted on 11/10/2009 11:52:57 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This phenomenon has been known for decades. The ENTIRE ocean is a huge reservoir for excess carbon sink or absorption. As ocean waters warm, you always have algae blooms and the microscopic plants that require C02 for photosynthesis. The carrying capacity of the oceans to absorb excess C02 is 100’s of times greater than the atmosphere. This is just another scientific fact to disprove the C02 global warming hysteria.

The earth is a highly complex bio-diversity engine. The global warming fanatics are nothing but eco-religious zealots and their arguments have no basis in facts or scientific theory.


17 posted on 11/10/2009 11:53:21 AM PST by SDShack (0zer0care = Socialized Soylent Green Healthcare)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ah, “negative feedback”.

It appears that the loons in the “global warming fool-em department” have not discovered this bit of control theory.


18 posted on 11/10/2009 12:07:31 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: thethirddegree

“Can we throw Al Gore into the carbon sink and see if he floats?”

Only if it’s a sink with a garbage disposal at the drain.

Then, I get to pull the plug (since s*it floats, we’ll have to), turn on the switch, and enjoy the results.


19 posted on 11/10/2009 12:09:12 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Save the Phytoplankton!

This NASA Aqua satellite image shows clouds of phytoplankton thrivng in cold, nutrient-rich waters off Greenland in 2003. Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem. (AFP/NASA/File)


20 posted on 11/10/2009 12:12:58 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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