Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 12/19/2014 2:26:42 AM PST by moose07
Nasa's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) has returned its first global maps of the greenhouse gas CO2.
The satellite was sent up in July to help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed.
This should help scientists better understand how human activities are influencing the climate.
The new maps contain only a few weeks of data in October and November, but demonstrate the promise of the mission.
Clearly evident within the charts is the banding effect that describes how emitted gases are mixed by winds along latitudes rather than across them.
Also apparent are the higher concentrations over South America and southern Africa. These are likely the result of biomass burning in these regions.
It is possible to see spikes, too, on the eastern seaboard of the US and over China. These probably include the additional emissions of CO2 that come from industrialisation
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Even with this snapshot, scientists can see that some of their existing models will have to be revised.
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The Orbiting Carbon Observatory has been spoken of as the forerunner of satellite missions that would seek to gain the information needed to patrol climate treaties, by helping to check that promises made by nations on carbon curbs were being kept.
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The last I read trees and plants aren’t as wonderful as they thought because they might clean the air when they are alive when they die and decay they put out carbon so....
I’ve always thought environmentalism was about killing off as many people as possible.
Looks like we need to raze all the world’s rain forests.
Excellent explanation!
Another Freeper nailed Anthropogenic Global Warming so succinctly that I replied to bookmark it.
“Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3236427/posts?page=4#4
They’ll still have global cooling and exponentially increased icepack at both poles to spin in some excruciatingly tortuous fashion. More succinct and to the point; They’ll have to LIE their souls to a cinder!
Excellent follow-up question!
What spike over Eastern US?
And compared to China? What nut is trying to make this equivalence?
I don't think that the entire Eastern Seaboard puts out as much CO2 as that one volcano in Iceland.
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