Climate Warming Research Shows That .... OOPS! NEVER MIND!

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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.

Stephanie Roe, an ecology Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, measured the rate of decomposition in artificially warmed plots of forest in Puerto Rico. She found biomass in the warmed plots broke down more slowly than samples from a control site that wasn't warmed.

Climate warming experiment finds unexpected results

#settledscience
 
The biggest global science fraud since the world was supposedly flat....to link us with the earths destruction is ridiculous....
 
This paper is not good since it was damaged by weather, very short research time frame, fails to establish control for humidity changes and doesn't have BELOW ground temperature data to work with.

It was a poorly designed experiment.
 
The article under discussion makes several points that do not appear in this thread for some reason. The artificially heated Puerto Rico rainforest suffered significant dehydration. The authors believe it is this dehydration that caused the reduction in biomass development. No one has shown that the Earth's warming from AGW has caused dehydration save where changing weather patterns have caused drought. The most common opinion among researchers is that the increasing heat will increase water vapor levels in the air and precipitation. Thus, the Puerto Rico experiment is NOT representative of what is actually expected to occur.
 

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