More bad news for the eco-fascists, as it appears that the earth system is much more capable of “sinking” carbon than we’d previously been hearing,
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 evidence flatly contradicts the hard-data-free models which “suggest” that the earth’s carbon sinking capacity is already declining. This is what happens when you use actual data gathered by real scientists, instead of operating on assumptions drawn from computational climate models programmed to give pre-determined results by non-objective partisan hacks.
Each day that goes by renders it more and more difficult for the doom-and-gloomers to peddle their eco-twaddle. That’s because, despite the de facto lid being kept on it, more and more actual results from science by science are getting out there to compete with the claims being made by those utilising science by special interest group.
Tags: Global Warming, Science
