Posted on 10/31/2018 8:28:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake in the absence of photosynthesis affects greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.
In a study published today in Nature Climate Change, lead author William Riley demonstrates how to improve climate models to more accurately represent land biogeochemical dynamics. Using a new global land model they developed and integrated in DOE's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), Riley and his team found that plants can uptake more carbon dioxide and soils lose less nitrous oxide than previously thought. Their global simulations imply weaker terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks with the atmosphere than current models predict.
"This is goodish news, with respect to what is currently in the climate models," said Riley, a scientist in Berkeley Lab's Earth & Environmental Sciences Area. "But it's not good news in general -- it's not going to solve the problem. No matter what, plants will not keep up with anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; it's just that they might do better than current models suggest."
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These technical scientific terms go over my head.
Wow, the computer whiz’s are catching up with 18th century science. Plants breath CO2, what a shocker! Perhaps by 2040 they will take into account 20th century science...
WOW,My Garden has had it’s best year ever!!!!!!!!!! Still have 150 tomatoes on 4 plants.
Finally, models with the right curves.
“...it’s not going to solve the problem...”
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BECAUSE THERE IS NO FRIGGIN PROBLEM!
Not with CO2 anyway.
Even if the feedback is better than previously modeled, it doesn’t even matter (although I bring up the fact that CO2 is great for plants nearly every time). CO2’s greenhouse properties are insignificant anyway.
That was a low hanging slow pitch...
Yeah, I’m, thinkin’ the plants know well how to party-on after dark.
— it’s not going to solve the problem. No matter what, plants will not keep up with anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; it’s just that they might do better than current models suggest.”
Translation : were still going phase/ban private vehicular transportation, roads that allow human driving, and force everyone into cramped, unhealthy urban rat-parks. Part of the bigger plan you know.
— it’s not going to solve the problem. No matter what, plants will not keep up with anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; it’s just that they might do better than current models suggest.”
Translation : were still going phase/ban private vehicular transportation, roads that allow human driving, and force everyone into cramped, unhealthy urban rat-parks. Part of the bigger plan you know.
There is a reason this planet has exhibited a climate stable enough to support human life for millions of years. It’s a self-correcting system. It has corrected incredibly wild climate swings, from volcanic periods to tropical periods to ice ages and back again.
Give Earth a chance. It will adjust all by itself, as it always does.
no way! Climate scientists discovered transpiration? somebody get the Nobel Prize committee on the phone, quick!
Way to cover up the lies.
The model is a computer program. It does exactly what the code tells it to do. It faithfully carries out the prejudices of the scientific team that uses it.
My temperature is rising!
It was just a few weeks ago that we launched the IceSat 2.
The big Kock Brothers want Trump to shut down all those satellites
“...which is estimated to currently be between 0 and 11 gigatons of CO2 per year...”
That’s the kind of wild ass guessing that shakes their credibility.
“”But it’s not good news in general — it’s not going to solve the problem. No matter what, plants will not keep up with anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; it’s just that they might do better than current models suggest.””
Here’s a thought. PLANT MORE TREES.
Well done!
You knocked it out of the park.
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