While tooling around the internet, I ran into a report about an upcoming article in Geophysical Research Letters.
“To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
I was surprised to learn that someone thought that CO2 hadn't gone up. After all we have the famous Keeling Curve.
It has wonderful geometric beauty, and that implies a certitude about the CO2 levels.
...Clearly the Keeling curve looks artificial compared to the other stations on earth.
One could say that maybe the other researchers are simply incompetent, but that seems harsh.
Why is the Keeling curve so regular, especially since it is sitting on a volcano that occasionally spews out additional CO2?
In 40 years has not one single measurment been taken when the volcano was blowing additional CO2 towards the station?
That seems highly unlikely..."
Must read!!
“To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
I was surprised to learn that someone thought that CO2 hadn't gone up. After all we have the famous Keeling Curve.
It has wonderful geometric beauty, and that implies a certitude about the CO2 levels.
...Clearly the Keeling curve looks artificial compared to the other stations on earth.
One could say that maybe the other researchers are simply incompetent, but that seems harsh.
Why is the Keeling curve so regular, especially since it is sitting on a volcano that occasionally spews out additional CO2?
In 40 years has not one single measurment been taken when the volcano was blowing additional CO2 towards the station?
That seems highly unlikely..."
Must read!!
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