Tropical forests store about a third of Earth’s carbon and about two-thirds of its above-ground biomass. Most climate change models predict that as the world warms, all of that biomass will decompose more quickly, which would send a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But new research presented at the American Geophysical Union’s 2018 Fall Meeting contradicts that theory.
If the planet warms millions of acres will become fertile enough to support forests and “sink” carbon into them. But whatever, all these “expert” researchers seem to be so narrowly focused on how to invoke “climate change” into their research they’ll grasp at anything while ignoring contradictions. Any climate ideology that claims me and my dog are “polluting” every time we exhale is ridiculous.
X is for unknown, and a spurt is a drip under pressure.
Or…X is for has been.
… all these “expert” researchers seem to be so narrowly focused on how to invoke “climate change” into their research they’ll grasp at anything while ignoring contradictions.
So very well said! When our … scientists … begin reporting ANYTHING that contradicts their pre-conceived, pre-packaged predictions … I will start calling them – scientists. However, when EVERY one of their experiments results in yet another sinful scold to STOP using fossil fuels or the planet will wither and dieeeeee … I will mock their so-called science as simple political advocacy (and $$$ grant funding assurance).
Note: This scientist STILL managed to claim this unexpected experimental result would result in a DYING planet as the dried-out forest litter would no longer nourish the trees … and we’d all DIEEEEEEEEEEEEE AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Quick!! Al Gore … hop on another private jet and fly across the world to preach the DOOM and GLOOM of using fossil fuels. *cough* *cough* *gag*
Can someone please explain to me how carbon is a pollutant?
People are playing along with this delusion instead of refuting it outright.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect
Basically the idea is that if your eyes could see in infrared, CO2 would look opaque like fog or smoke. If you looked at the earth from space, it would get darker and darker the more CO2 was in the atmosphere.
Since all energy is conserved, the light that would instead be emitted from the earth is absorbed and stays in the atmosphere, converted to heat.
The Earth isn’t a greenhouse, and it turns out that the mechanism originally proposed for the actual greenhouse effect isn’t correct either.
The greenhouse part is actually a bit of a misnomer, the handy wikipedia article I linked above explains this in detail.
Here’s the specific section, enjoy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect#Real_greenhouses
CO2, traps 3 freq. that radiate up from the earth. And 15 MM is the only one pertinent to this discussion. And H2O also traps 15MM, so 95% of 15MM, or more, is trapped. To trap what is left is an exercise in LOGRITHMIC math. So jerk off till yer heart is content. Yer green house effect is bullshit, period!!!
See!! I told you my NME was smart …
well said, mate!
That proves what carbon looks like from space, not that it is a pollutant.
Justin Turdeau would tell you a pollutant is a pollutant cause it is a pollutant.
of course the real reason is Justin just wants another source of revenue so he can travel more, buy more boats, buy a new helo, buy new prime ministerial plane, and totally renovate the prime minister’s home at 24 Sussex drive.
Carbon dioxide is what Algore exhales.
and goreBULLwarming theory is what the back end of a bull evacuates!!
I’ve always thought that if you clear cut old growth forest and use the wood and plant new trees as replacements, then much more carbon dioxide would be taken up by the new kid/teenage trees than do the mature trees.
If all commercially exploitable carbon is freed from the earth, what percent of total sequestered carbon is that? 5%? 10%? Alberta is built on coal. Seams my vary from inches to maybe 50 feet. Dig a well in Alberta – coal. I built a drive way and exposed coal. And the climate that laid down the coal was absolutely lush. It sure wasn’t desert.
Appears the carbon plague is upon us, we have to shut down all industry, bike or walk, and definitely no heavy breathing.
Of course that isn’t a problem in China, they wear masks and we pay them big bucks for all they produce and our Prime Minister admires their basic dictatorship, we are even buying drugs and food from that polluted Commie state. What could possibly go wrong?
… they wear masks … *snicker* … *bwaaaahahahahahaha* !
Yep … the Chinese are personally combating the exhalation of Co2!!!!! And yet they dig all their roadways by hand … employing thousands of heavy breathing laborers. Alas, they should have used ONE diesel road grader instead.
When I was wandering around in tropical rainforests looking for minerals, I noticed that there isn’t much in the way of decaying leaf matter on the forest floor. The ants gather it all up and take it underground where it probably gets eaten.
Ants.
And termites.
Anyone who gets their panties in a bunch over a 4 degree C peak to peak variance that has lasted for more than
a thousand years is no scientist. Mammy Nature seems to be doing a fine job of regulating global temperature
all by herself. I learned the properties of water and the water cycle in grade school, so one of the first things that
one would expect to see with increased temperatures would be increased cloud cover. Some 90+ percent of
greenhouse gases is water vapor. As for increased CO2, it results in explosive growth in flora. Even a proponent
of global warming will have to admit that if you put it simple terms. Every one of the computer models purposefully
ignores solar variability and the role the oceans play as heat sinks. I am not going to lose any sleep over 7.2 degrees
F or for my Canadian friends, 4 degrees C.
If the earth warms up we could grow corn in Saskatchewan, and perhaps as far North as Peace River. I used to grow it in my garden there, but the quality was hit and miss.
Nebraska would stop growing corn, but by then they probably would have pumped their aquifer dry.
Enough sarcasm, I’m much more afraid of an ice age. Although an ice age would solve first nation issues and also solve immigration.