Posted on 07/26/2024 11:17:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Earth’s land lost much of their ability to absorb the carbon dioxide humans pumped into the air last year, according to a new study that is causing concern among climate scientists that a crucial damper on climate change underwent an unprecedented deterioration.
Temperatures in 2023 were so high — and the droughts and wildfires that came with them were so severe — that forests in various parts of the world wilted and burned enough to have degraded the ability of the land to lock away carbon dioxide and act as a check on global warming, the study said.
The scientists behind the research, which focuses on 2023, caution that their findings are preliminary. But the work represents a disturbing data point — one that, if it turns into a trend, spells trouble for the planet and the people on it.
“We have to be, of course, careful because it’s just one year,” said Philippe Ciais, a scientist at France’s Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences who co-authored the new research.
But the results, he added, are still “worrying.” If extreme warming continues, society risks losing “the best friend of humanity” in Earth’s land.
Earth’s continents act as what is known as a carbon sink. The carbon dioxide that humans emit through activities such as burning fossil fuels and making cement encourages the growth of plants, which in turn absorb a portion of those greenhouse gases and lock them in wood and soil. Without this help from forests, climate change would be worse than what is already occurring.
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Trillions of dollars spent and the sun still shines.
Imagine that.
Think of it different. A fire of plants releases pent up CO2 which feeds plants and make plants bigger so that the plants make more oxygen for air breathing creatures
Yes. Air breathing creatures like us humans, exhale CO2. We just need to hold our breath more, and exhale less. A good start would be preventing liberals from exhaling at all.
Insane drivel
If left wingers would keep their mouths shut, the Earth would be cooler.
“Experts say”
Do the “experts” realize plants grow after fires? And, conifers need fire to sprout the seeds in their cones.
BUT. PANIC!!! We must give all our money and freedoms to smart bureaucrats like Bill Gates to save us.
Sounds like a feedback loop. Good. That’ll settle the question.
Where is smokey the bear?
The wildfires in Washington state get big and out of control due to poor forest management.
Forests are burning because bunny-huggers (and watermelons) made them stop maintaining fire breaks and clearing undergrowth and harvesting old, vulnerable trees in old growth forests.
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