What impact will weakening carbon sinks have on global warming?
Posted on 2009 under Uncategorized, solar power for homes | 4 Comments11 Nov
How significant will this impact be?
ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2009) — The stabilising influence that land and ocean carbon sinks have on rising carbon emissions is gradually weakening, say scientists attending last week’s international Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
“Forests, grasslands and oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere faster than ever but they are not keeping pace with rapidly rising emissions,” says CSIRO scientist and co-chair of the Global Carbon Project, Dr Mike Raupach.
“While these natural CO2 sinks are a huge buffer against climate change, which would occur about twice as fast without them, they cannot be taken for granted.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317094729.htm
It will result in the acceleration of atmospheric CO2 concentrations – which we’re already observing – which in turn will result in accelerating global warming, and thus climate change.
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by Peter J, on November 10 2009 @ 11:56 am
Everything said or claimed at a "climate change" conference must be assumed to be excrement until proven otherwise.
Sorry, doesn’t make any sense and it was spoken at a climate change conference. No impact.
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by ricizubi, on November 10 2009 @ 12:24 pm
it will lower a bit the temperature (o,2-0′)
there will be a less chance to an uragan to be created
not so many heat waves.
the green house effect will resist still some time
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by [O]peration [I]raqi [L]iberation, on November 10 2009 @ 12:33 pm
Logic would follow that a weakening carbon sink would result in increased carbon levels which would accelerate warming.
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by Dana1981, Master of Science, on November 10 2009 @ 1:00 pm
It will result in the acceleration of atmospheric CO2 concentrations – which we’re already observing – which in turn will result in accelerating global warming, and thus climate change.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18866.full.pdf+html
http://climateprogress.org/2009/01/15/something-else-for-deniers-to-deny-ocean-absorbing-less-carbon-dioxide/