Controversial new climate change results (CO2 is not a concern)

PhysOrg.com ^ | November 10, 2009 | PhysOrg.com

[ConservativeMind]

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.

This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO₂ than had been previously expected.

The results run contrary to a significant body of recent research which expects that the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans to absorb CO₂ should start to diminish as CO₂ emissions increase, letting greenhouse gas levels skyrocket. Dr Wolfgang Knorr at the University of Bristol found that in fact the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has only been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade, which is essentially zero.

The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models.

This work is extremely important for climate change policy, because emission targets to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen early next month have been based on projections that have a carbon free sink of already factored in. Some researchers have cautioned against this approach, pointing at evidence that suggests the sink has already started to decrease.

So is this good news for climate negotiations in Copenhagen? “Not necessarily”, says Knorr. “Like all studies of this kind, there are uncertainties in the data, so rather than relying on Nature to provide a free service, soaking up our waste carbon, we need to ascertain why the proportion being absorbed has not changed”.

Another result of the study is that emissions from deforestation might have been overestimated by between 18 and 75 per cent. This would agree with results published last week in Nature Geoscience by a team led by Guido van der Werf from VU University Amsterdam. They re-visited deforestation data and concluded that emissions have been overestimated by at least a factor of two.

More information: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions increasing? by Wolfgang Knorr. Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 36, L21710, doi:10.1029/2009GL040613, 2009.

Provided by University of Bristol (news : web)

[ConservativeMind]

Interesting...

[Truth is a Weapon]

ping

[ConservativeMind]

Ping.

[dila813]

Should be a nail in the coffin of this, but won’t. A new rational will be found.

[Nateman]

Looks like somebody with politically incorrect results is going to lose funding!

[o2bfree]

complex climate models = unproven forecasts, misleading guesses, and mass hysteria

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[padre35]

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[SeeSharp]

This is worth repeating...

"The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models."

[CygnusTheSwan]

Facts vs. someone’s idea of how something should/could/might work (ie: computer model).

Safe money’s on the facts. Computer models, like polls, can be designed to return a pre-determined, wanted, result.

[Electric Graffiti]

Climate change is not a concern. Only to the politicized ‘scientists’, Marxists, and Eco Fecal Freaks who want to create a scare out of ‘thin’ air to control everybody’s way of life. It was an obvious hoax from the start of this chicken-little cult.

[bjcintennessee]

ping

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

A new rationale has already been found for spending trillions to limit CO2 emissions. Look up “acidification of oceans”. Of course, that new scare ignores the fact that a lot of CO2 absorbing organisms fall to the bottom of the ocean, when they die. It's all rather maddening.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

A new rationale has already been found for spending trillions to limit CO2 emissions. Look up “acidification of oceans”. Of course, that new scare ignores the fact that a lot of CO2 absorbing organisms fall to the bottom of the ocean, when they die. It's all rather maddening.

[dila813]

and the fact that they turn it into bicarbonate that should drop the acid level in the ocean

[PizzaDriver]

In 1850 we were starting to wipe out the buffalo & the passenger pigeon, Coal and Wood heated our homes, and Autumn Leaves were Burned. Whale Oil illuminatd our living rooms.

Now, the oracle Gore and his ilk want us to forget about those Facts.

CHANGE happens!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Don’t let facts get in the way of a good scam.

[DoughtyOne]

Take a look at the plant from space some time. Not you particularly, but anyone... just take a look. Los Angeles is one of the most spread out urban centers on the planet. From space it’s a little speck, unable to be located completely even if you know right where it is.

We know that about 70% of the earth’s surface is water. We know that there are vast areas of land that are devoid of human civilization. Go one hour east of LA and you’re in the middle of nothing. In 20 minutes you can get to the country in most urban centers.

The point is, we are an insignificant insect in the overall scheme of things. What a tragedy it’s going to be for the left to find this out. All the meaning in their lives will be gone.

Geez, I’m getting all misty...

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !