Pitiful... The sink rates weren't wrong "by a little bit" They were off by a factor of 2.
Yes, you are pitiful....and really stupid.....there is nothing in that article that claims that previous estimations of the "
sink rate" are "
off by a factor of 2".....that's just your imbecilic misunderstanding of what was said.
AND it negates the common wisdom of the Climate community that those rates had BEEN DECREASING..
Sorry retard but you have no frigging idea what the climate scientists have predicted because you're way too full of misinformation, lies and propaganda to have room for the facts and you're far too stupid to find or understand the information anyway.
BTW, retard, one study does not actually "
negate" anything. The researchers in the article cited in the OP were calculating how much CO2 the oceans and plant life are absorbing by taking the measured increases in atmospheric CO2 levels and subtracting that from the amount of CO2 released by the recorded amounts of fossil fuels that the world is burning. Other researchers have done direct measurements of the CO2 levels in the world's oceans and found that in some places the ocean waters are already saturated with CO2 and won't hold any more. Moreover, climate models DID NOT predict that CO2 absorption rates would be seriously decreasing already. Their predictions actually said that absorption rates would not decline for another four decades or so.
Anyway, one study does not "
negate" all of the previous research, it just suggests that more study is needed to clarify these points. Whatever they may find, it does not affect the basic facts about AGW. Here's one the previous studies.
Global Warming - One Carbon Sink Is Filling Up
The Southern Ocean has grown saturated with CO2 and may lose its capacity to mitigate global warming, according to new research.
Der Speigel
05/18/2007
(excerpts)
Some of the world's seawater, thought to absorb a quarter of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, has grown saturated with the gas and leaves more of it sitting in the atmosphere. Researchers reporting in the journal Science say at least one large ocean area -- the Southern Ocean around Antarctica -- is so loaded with CO2 that it's losing its ability to soak it up. The Southern Ocean alone accounts for 15 percent of the global carbon sink.
Only half of all CO2 emitted in the world stays in the atmosphere. The rest goes into carbon sinks, normally vast collections of water or plant life which can bind or process the CO2 and keep it out of the global-warming equation. The decline of Antarctica's Southern Ocean as a carbon sink may raise future CO2 levels and speed up global warming. Climate scientists have predicted this would happen. The trouble is that the changes appear to be happening some 40 years ahead of schedule.
"We thought we would be able to detect these only in the second half of this century, say 2050 or so," lead researcher Corrine Le Quere told Reuters. Data from 1981 to 2004, however, show the waters have been saturated with carbon dioxide since at least the 1980s. "So, I find this really quite alarming," she said. Why is it happening now? Wind, says Le Quere. Increased winds over the past half-century churn the Southern Ocean, pulling naturally occurring carbon from deep in the ocean to its surface, where the human-caused carbon sits. The ocean surface becomes saturated with CO2 and stops absorbing it from the atmosphere. "Since the beginning of the industrial revolution the world's oceans have absorbed about a quarter of the 500 gigatons (500 billion tons) of carbon emitted into the atmosphere by humans," Chris Rapley of the British Antarctic Survey said. "The possibility that in a warmer world, the Southern Ocean -- the strongest ocean sink -- is weakening is a cause for concern."
Not to mention casting severe doubt on any ability to model or predict the future with data this important and this far off.
The new data isn't that important and the old studies aren't that far off or "
negated", retard. That's just your idiotic denier cult spin on the actual facts. This study cited in the OP doesn't cast any doubts on climate science or models. It is your moronic posts about the study that cast severe doubts about your sanity.
You cut off the Wiki Source describing CO2 during a series of ICe ages and IMPLIED that CO2 content had never been higher.. When in actuality we know it's been over 10 times as high and life did not perish from it.
Sorry little retard, but you've made it quite clear that you don't "
know" anything that is factual. You only "
know" a jumble of misinformation, lies and spun-up nonsense but of course, in true retard style, everything you think you know is wrong.
I didn't imply any such thing. You're just too stupid to understand what is said to you. In the very distant past, CO2 levels have been many times higher but the sun's energy output was lower, something you're too ignorant and brainwashed to know or understand. In more recent times, like only 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene, CO2 levels were similar to current levels and stayed around 365 to 410 ppm for thousands of years. During that time Arctic temperatures were 11 to 16°C warmer according to
Csank 2011 and global temperatures were about 3 to 4°C warmer than pre-industrial temperatures and sea levels were around 80 feet higher than current sea levels according to
Dwyer 2008. The historical records are not in your favor, you poor duped and deluded denier cult nutjob.
It's all bluster and smoke with you..
You're 'projecting' again, little retard. I present the scientific facts of the matter and you parade your ignorance and stupidity and extreme gullibility. You are all about "bluster" and blowing smoke out your butthole.
And very Very little debate or content or demonstration of understanding..
Yeah, that does describe you quite well, mr. retardo.
Not interested in playing with you anymore on this Princess..
Why am I not surprised that you would run away when you're getting your butt kicked up to hat level by the facts. Typical denier cult retard.
...........the title will be, "Do It For The Glaciers!!!"
