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Climate Change: A new study shows that Earth's ability to absorb carbon dioxide from all sources, including man, has remained unchanged for 160 years. As it turns out, there may be no carbon to offset.
A major tenet of the global warming religion, straight from the Book of Gore, has been that the ability of the earth to handle increasing CO2 emissions is finite and that once the "tipping point" is reached, the earth will warm uncontrollably. Well, another climate domino has fallen — the myth that man-made CO2 is leading to climate catastrophe.
This "settled science" has been upended by an unsettling (for warm-mongers) new study out of the University of Bristol in England. Unlike the Climate-gate charlatans at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, Wolfgang Knorr of Bristol's Earth Sciences Department followed the data where it led instead of trying to manipulate it to "hide the decline" in global temperatures the earth has experienced in the last decade.
The new study, published in the online journal Geophysical Research Letters, does not deny that increasing amounts of CO2 have been generated as the world has industrialized, eradicated disease, produced agricultural abundance and improved man's standard of living. It does show that only 45% of man's emissions, not 100% as warmers claim, stays in the atmosphere, and that includes the carbon emissions of the private jets that flew to Copenhagen last month and the limos that drove the occupants around.
The rest is absorbed by nature, and that percentage hasn't changed since 1850. Knorr arrived at that figure by relying solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice. He did not rely, as the CRU did, on badly written computer models with built-in fudge factors to direct the data to a foregone conclusion.
Another result of this study, reports Anthony Watts at WattsUpWithThat.com, is that emissions from deforestation, caused in large part by the clearing of forest land to grow allegedly planet-saving biofuels, may have been grossly overestimated. This finding agrees with results published in November in the journal Nature Geoscience by a team led by Guido van der Werf from VU University in Amsterdam. It reanalyzed deforestation data and concluded that resulting emissions have been overestimated by a factor of two.
We have tried to help document this growing disparity between observable data and apocalyptic computer models that cannot even predict the past. This post-Climate-gate study provides another nail in the coffin of cap-and-trade and shows why the Environmental Protection Agency should not be allowed to destroy the U.S. economy by absurdly regulating carbon dioxide, the basis for all life on earth, as a pollutant.
Health Care: Democratic leaders reportedly plan to forge a final reform bill behind closed doors. They should not be able to get away with hiding public policy from the public it will adversely affect. Both the House and Senate must pass identical bills before the president can sign the ...
Taxes: As if the Internal Revenue Service doesn't have enough power, the agency says it will regulate tax preparers. And ObamaCare gives it even more clout. Eric Hoffer, the great working class scourge of statist power, noted in his 1955 book, "The Passionate State of Mind," that "There is a ...
Economy: As the U.S. dithers, East Asia has moved forward on market liberalization with a vengeance, creating the biggest free trade zones seen in years. The train is pulling out of the station, and America isn't on board. Largely ignored over the weekend, Jan. 1 signaled the arrival of the ...
Politicians, businessmen and labor union spokesmen have whined about the decline in U.S. manufacturing. Before looking into what they say is the sad decline in U.S. manufacturing, let's examine what has happened in agriculture. In 1790, farmers were 90% of the U.S. labor force. By 1900, only about ...
Because of President Obama's outrageous profligacy with the public purse, strong policy tilt to the left and weak performance on the world stage, some commentators foresee a failed presidency that does profound and permanent harm to the nation. Others, although not predicting Armageddon, point to ...
Posted By: seine(220) on 1/6/2010 | 1:46 AM ET
Ian Plimer, 'Heaven and Earth' pg. 416 discusses flaws in the data from the officail CO2 test site, Mauna Loa, Hawii. Some 82% of the measured data is 'edited' and they refuse to recognize the Pettenkofer CO2 test history 1812 - 1961 as it doesn't correlate with the now used infra-red testing. Compares CO2 in atmosphere (little) oceans (13 times as much) rocks and soil (20,000 times as much).
Posted By: dwdrury(355) on 1/6/2010 | 1:11 AM ET
Suppose it would be too much to ask for the Warm Mongers to at least have the power of conviction of their beliefs and remove their, and their families' contributions to the catastrophe they imagine. They could all "take one for the team" and slit their own throats. Now, THAT would certainly reduce "man caused pollution".
Posted By: kwg1(105) on 1/5/2010 | 11:53 PM ET
I marvel at the fact that 75% of the surface of the earth is covered by water (Oceans). Yet only about 1 % of the &5% has been mapped. What do we know is down there? Active volcanoes, steam vents and even coral. What gases, minerals and solids compose the erruptions? CO2, sulphur, etc. Yet we do not know how often or how much volume is due to these volcanoes because we have only mapped 1% of the area. Mind boggling that extrapolation is tried at all! ????Ï??Ï? Ï?Ï??? Ï?Ï?????????Ï?? Ï??Ï? Ï?????Ï??
Posted By: zenga(760) on 1/5/2010 | 9:38 PM ET
CO2 is not a pollutant. period. Dems lie. fire them all. soonest.
Posted By: palmer2(5) on 1/5/2010 | 9:11 PM ET
"It does show that only 45% of man's emissions, not 100% as warmers claim, stays in the atmosphere," Not correct. Nobody can claim that 100% of man's 8Gt stays in the atmosphere because it only rises by 4Gt on average. What warmers do claim is that 100% of the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is from man-made sources. Unfortunately for them, this is merely a hand-wave. The natural sources and sinks fluctuate naturally and man's additions add steadily, but are not 100% of the increase.
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