Earth is Losing its Ability to Absorb CO2?
reposted | 23.01.2007 18:40 | Ecology
Scientists are very worried from their
data that shows increasing CO2 levels
that are growing faster than anticipated
and faster than the growth of emissions.
data that shows increasing CO2 levels
that are growing faster than anticipated
and faster than the growth of emissions.
CO2 rose at record levels in 2006, the fourth of the past five
years showing increases that are not in line with the slow increase
in man's emmision of the greenhouse gas. It would be explained if
there had been a volcanic eruption each year somewhere on the
planet.....but there has not been even one.
Peter Cox, a climate change expert at Exeter University, said: " The
concern is that climate change itself will affect the ability of the land
to absorb our emissions."
They are worried that this means we have less time than they thought
to change our polluting ways before huge changes in the climate occur.
This information is from the following article:
Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming, by David Adam
Environment correspondent, Guardian UK, 1/19/07
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1994071,00.html
years showing increases that are not in line with the slow increase
in man's emmision of the greenhouse gas. It would be explained if
there had been a volcanic eruption each year somewhere on the
planet.....but there has not been even one.
Peter Cox, a climate change expert at Exeter University, said: " The
concern is that climate change itself will affect the ability of the land
to absorb our emissions."
They are worried that this means we have less time than they thought
to change our polluting ways before huge changes in the climate occur.
This information is from the following article:
Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming, by David Adam
Environment correspondent, Guardian UK, 1/19/07
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1994071,00.html
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23.01.2007 19:30
The Hadley Cell global climate models we use are subject to error (as is all science) and as such the acceptable norm for climate scientists is to err on the side of conservatism when it comes to making predictions. I often hear my peers joking about the imminent collapse of the Greenland Icesheet, or the rapid warming and scorching of the Amazon Basin. They (many are 'asylum seekers' from the oil industry) don't like to get emotional about the geopolitics of it all.
Its a pretty dangerous equation:
Conservative modelling plus conservative scientific reporting, plus concervative economic calculation (the Stern Report.... which I feel was a very unimpressive half measure of a document, and yes I have read all 700 pages of it), plus even more conservative governmental action
equals------
a huge underestimate of the effects of climate change, and more importantly the rate of change.
which means-
we're all going to be seriously fcuked unless we do something about it, NOW.
I'm sick of being surrounded in my workplace by careerist brown-nosers, who would trade their jobs in climate science for a job at shell (and 4 times the money) at the drop of a hat.
We're not all souless bastards, I suppose there is always the hope that the people (that's all of us) rise up and dissolve the system, and decentralise the energy network.
DOWN WITH THE NATIONAL GRID!
uk Climatologist
Yeah
23.01.2007 22:42
Growler