Wednesday, November 11, 2009

University of Bristol - nature absorbing most of our CO2

This highlights yet again a simple point I've made over and over again - we still do not understand properly how the Earth's climate functions and we are still discovering new and unexpected things about it.

But despite this we are presuming that we can try and regulate the planet's temperature as if turning a dial, and all without unforeseen and unintended consequences.

Complete madness. And it is on the basis of this madness that we are lining up for the introduction of a massive tax on everything!

This comes from Andrew Bolt's blog:
The emissions we’re told are threatening the globe seem not to be the problem that Kevin Rudd and Al Gore claim, after all. From the University of Bristol:
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.

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.
Green World Trust noticed the same thing - increasing emissions actually being absorbed.

Add to that the fact that the globe hasn’t warmed for eight years.... So why is Rudd pushing ahead with his colossal new tax on emissions?

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