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It's all about time course, NOT the science. Of course your SUV could melt the ice cap. it's just a matter of when. The science even in the posted article is unassailable. If GHGs get high enough, warming is inevitable. Though it IS only one factor in climate, that DOES NOT mean it can't be the determining one.
What is being said is that precipitation plays a larger role than previously thought, compared to temperature. And they note new methods of study. Nowhere was there a claim about 'alarmists', or, for that matter, 'skeptics'.
Just good straight science, something Frank is incapable of understanding.
Max Planck Society - Press Release
A new balance for the global carbon balance
Researchers determine how rates of photosynthesis and ecosystem respiration depend on the climate in order to obtain a better assessment of the consequences of climate change
Climate predictions could become more accurate and more reliable in the future - thanks to new findings on the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. International teams of researchers headed by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena now present comprehensive data analyses in two related studies. The analyses also lead to more precise estimates of how the ecosystems could react to climate change. In most ecosystems, the photosynthesis rate at which plants fix carbon dioxide from the atmosphere changes relatively little as temperature varies. Over 40 percent of the Earths vegetated surface reacts very sensitively to changes in the amount of precipitation, however. The respiration of the ecosystems, when flora and fauna release carbon dioxide, also increases to a lesser extent than has recently often been assumed when the temperature rises. Moreover, this temperature dependence is the same all over the world - even in ecosystems as different as the tropical savannah and the Finnish needleleaf forest, for example. (Science Express, July 5, 2010)
Once again Frank clearly demonstrates his total inability to understand what he reads. One wonders if he understands the meaning of the word enhance.
It's all about time course, NOT the science. Of course your SUV could melt the ice cap. it's just a matter of when. The science even in the posted article is unassailable. If GHGs get high enough, warming is inevitable. Though it IS only one factor in climate, that DOES NOT mean it can't be the determining one.
And, once again, Ol' Walleyes actually posts an article that states AGW is real, and a real concern, then states that is says just the opposite. One wonders what the hell this fellows reading comprehension is.