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To: allmost
The skeptics/realists know that this is a lagging indicator. CO2 is released after the liquid (ocean) is warmed.

The oceans used to do that. Without mankind there would be a 5-10 ppm rise in CO2 from the natural warming coming out of the Little Ice Age. That can be calculated from the partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere (above the ocean) and the temperature rise. Since CO2 has risen by about 100ppm the oceans have gone into reverse and are now absorbing about 1/2 of mankind's emissions each year.

Here's a paper http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/8576/1/LeQuere09.pdf showing the warming oceans are not emitting, they are absorbing. There are more many papers like this and they are generally correct.

26 posted on 05/12/2012 2:09:37 PM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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I will reinstall adobe’s crap to read your PDF. Do you believe the Sun does not heat the Earth?


27 posted on 05/12/2012 2:17:07 PM PDT by allmost
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