And another nail has been pounded into the warmists casket - yet they don't seem to realize it. -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112790957
Southern Ocean removing carbon dioxide from atmosphere more efficiently
https://news.agu.org/press-release/southern-ocean-removing-carbon-dioxide-from-atmosphere-more-efficiently/
Southern Ocean removing carbon dioxide from atmosphere more efficiently
Scientists compile densest carbon data set in Antarctic waters
10 September 2015
Joint Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since 2002, the Southern Ocean has been removing more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to two new studies.
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The global oceans are an important sink for human-released carbon dioxide, absorbing nearly a quarter of the total carbon dioxide emissions every year. Of all ocean regions, the Southern Ocean below the 35th parallel south plays a particularly vital role. “Although it comprises only 26 percent of the total ocean area, the Southern Ocean has absorbed nearly 40 percent of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide taken up by the global oceans up to the present,†says David Munro, a scientist at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado Boulder, and an author on the GRL paper.
The GRL paper focuses on one region of the Southern Ocean extending from the tip of South America to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (see Figure 1). “The Drake Passage is the windiest, roughest part of the Southern Ocean,†says Colm Sweeney, lead investigator on the Drake Passage study, co-author on both the GRL and Science papers, and a CIRES scientist working in the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. “The critical element to this study is that we were able to sustain measurements in this harsh environment as long as we have—both in the summer and the winter, in every year over the last 13 years. This data set of ocean carbon measurements is the densest ongoing time series in the Southern Ocean.â€
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The Science paper, led by Peter Landschützer at the ETH Zurich, takes a more expansive view of the Southern Ocean. This study uses two innovative methods to analyze a dataset of surface water carbon dioxide spanning almost three decades and covering all of the waters below the 35th parallel south. These data—including Sweeney and Munro’s data from the Drake Passage—also show that the surface water carbon dioxide is increasing slower than atmospheric carbon dioxide, a sign that the Southern Ocean as a whole is more efficiently removing carbon from the atmosphere. These results contrast with previous findings that showed that the Southern Ocean carbon dioxide sink was stagnant or weakening from the early 1990s to the early 2000s.
Oh My..
It seems scientists have discovered that climate science isn't so settled (again...). The heated oceans - especially around Antarctica - were doomed to fail as "carbon sinks", allowing more deadly plant food to remain in the atmosphere than it can support, slowly turning the earth into another Venus. But once again, the planet seemed to right itself in the face of certain human-based doom.
This dummy tries to find a dark cloud behind a silver lining..
1. Is this a plus
since CO2 dissolved makes it acid.
..lolwut ?
So the OP adds more, to highlight that AGW isn't dead... its just resting.. with one spurious claim..
Our results indicate that Earth’s most important sink for anthropogenic CO2 (5, 6) is more variable than previously suggested and that it responds quite sensitively to physical climate variability. This also suggests that should current climate trends reverse in the near future, the Southern Ocean might lose its recently regained uptake strength, leading to a faster accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere and consequently an acceleration of the rate of global warming
Reread the part in red.. then reread it again.
Yeah...
We all know that the warmists believe that we are riding a unicycle to our own special brand of doom by creating Global Warming. Remember, they have already declared 2015 the hottest year ever, and they blame it on CO2. - If you go back to the beginning of the quoted article, you'll see that it was just released today.. Since we know that, this article then suggests that if we manage to reverse carbon emissions to combat Global Warming, it will somehow weaken the ocean's carbon sink abilities, resulting in more Global Warming.
Or maybe it means (HERESY!!!) that it really hasn't been getting hotter since the late 1990s, just as the deniers have been suggesting all along.. You be the judge..
