Posted on 01/12/2017 10:00:24 AM PST by smokingfrog
Countries around the world are trying to get their greenhouse gas emissions under control — to see them inch down, percentage point by percentage point, from where they stood earlier in the century. If everybody gets on board, and shaves off enough of those percentage points, we just might be able to get on a trajectory to keep the world from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius above the temperature where it stood prior to industrialization.
But if a new study is correct, there’s a big problem: There might be more greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere than we thought. That would mean an even larger need to cut.
The new paper, slated to be published next week in BioScience, confirms a significant volume of greenhouse gas emissions coming from a little-considered place: Man-made reservoirs, held behind some 1 million dams around the world and created for the purposes of electricity generation, irrigation, and other human needs. In the study, 10 authors from U.S., Canadian, Chinese, Brazilian, and Dutch universities and institutions have synthesized a considerable body of prior research on the subject to conclude that these reservoirs may be emitting just shy of a gigaton, or billion tons, of annual carbon dioxide equivalents. That would mean they contributed 1.3 percent of the global total.
Moreover, the emissions are largely in the form of methane, a greenhouse gas with a relatively short life in the atmosphere but a very strong short-term warming effect. Scientists are increasingly finding that although we have begun to curb some emissions of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, we are still thwarted by methane, which comes from a diversity of sources that range from oil and gas operations to cows.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well...then get rid of the ones they have in California.
No smoking hot spot David Evans - THE AUSTRALIAN July 18, 20081. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
“But if a new study is correct”
Always so many qualifiers in AGW BS.
Maybe. Could. Perhaps. Might. May. If. Possibly. Would.
OBVIOUSLY billions on more dollars are needed to study the issue and massive power handed to important government officials just to be on the safe side.
According to this website there are only 515,176 Reservoirs of over 2.5 acres in the world.
https://www.currentresults.com/Environment-Facts/number-reservoirs-in-world.php
I guess some have multiple dams as GW research would never exaggerate.
Hey Hey Ho HO!!
H 2 O has got to go..
Hey Hey HO HO!!
More and more people are recognizing two things about these Enviro-fascists. One, their goal is to kill off around 95% of Earth's human population through starvation, cold, and if they can get away with it outright genocide. And two, they are very poorly educated but get by through spouting memorized jargon and platitudes they've picked up from their professors, the internet, and frauds like Bill Nye.
Reservoirs are a repository of the largest ‘greenhouse’ gas which constitutes 99% of all the ‘greenhouse’ gases: water vapor.
Worse still, the human body is mostly water; these repositories need to be drained to keep our pristine planet from turning into Venus.
For the children!
Save Mother Earth!
Stop breathing.
Well, that makes it clear - the only way to save the planets is to kill of the human race.
The obvious solution is to Drain all the reservoirs and fill them in.
They dream of reducing the world’s population to , depending on who is doing the dreaming, 5 or 50 or 500 million people, including themselves, of course. Any means for getting to that dreamy number that leaves the planet pristine is just fine. Famine is efficient and doesn’t make everything radioactive. They think somehow they are going to get to kêp all the technology and live in dense domed cities around the world with each having a country house somewhere in the pristine wilderness.
Strange how liberals never set the example here ...
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Great. Now we’ll have to drink gasoline.
along with cow farts?
We need to stop drinking and using water! (/sarc, of course)
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