Posted on 02/16/2011 12:28:02 PM PST by FreeAtlanta
ScienceDaily (Feb. 16, 2011) Up to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost likely will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
The carbon resides in permanently frozen ground that is beginning to thaw in high latitudes from warming temperatures, which will impact not only the climate but also international strategies to reduce fossil fuel emissions, said CU-Boulder's Kevin Schaefer, lead study author. "If we want to hit a target carbon dioxide concentration, then we have to reduce fossil fuel emissions that much lower than previously thought to account for this additional carbon from the permafrost," he said. "Otherwise we will end up with a warmer Earth than we want." posted using frpa
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You mean the Paul Krugman kind? LOL. Maybe there's some integrity left in the hard science awards.
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Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
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For the first time in BILLIONS and BILLIONS of years, the planet suddenly has only DESTRUCTIVE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK SYSTEMS!
ALL of the positive feedback systems that have worked for BILLIONS and BILLIONS of years have been wiped out...BY AL GORE & AGW FREAKS!
It is Anthropogenic Positive Feedback Denial: they are Positive Feedback Deniers!
"As long as the earth remains, there will be seed time and harvest, hot and cold, summer and winter, day and night." Genesis 8:22
Their thirty year average temp optimum is the one bracketing their birth year.
Optimunm population is what ever it was when they were in second grade.
Coastlines must be “saved” to maintian the profiles they had when these paragons first observed a chunk of it.
...and evolution reached its peak with their generation.
I beg to differ. They like their shadows, beause shadows cause cooling. /sarc
Indeed. They keep moving the dates forward. Back in the late 90s, confident predictions were made of an ice free arctic by 2010.
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