Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say

[Chris_]

Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say

 

The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.

Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order to prevent warming that could change precipitation patterns and dry up sources of water worldwide.

Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists, from countries including the United States, Canada and Germany, are delivering a simple message: The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.

       

 

TEH SKY IS FALLING!

[DumbAss Tanker]

Well, duh, if the hard-over AGW freaks were right in their hypothesis this would kind of go without saying.  Assuming they were correct (without taking sides) it would be obvious that the climate is like a hundred-car freight train or a supertanker, i.e. once you get it moving in one direction it does not stop moving just because you stop pushing it.  It seems fairly obvious that it would take the near-cessation of human CO2 generating activity over several decades to have any perceptible effect on it...which is totally unacceptable and isn't going to happen.  This is what I meant when I said "If they are right, the process is already irreversible, so it'd just have to be dealt with" - IF it even comes to pass.

[Bondai]

Oh BULLSHIT!

[Chris_]

All those believers in man-made globalwarming should lead the way by going to zero carbon output immediately.   

[Lord Undies]

Que Sera, Sera

[Crazy Horse]

And for this bullshit of Ethanol........................North Dakota lost 420,000 acres of wildlife habitat enrolled in the CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) in 2007, almost 12% of the entire states CRP. Of the 5.65 million acres about to expire, stored carbon is equal to the emissions of ~15 million cars. The grasslands remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. So when they start to farm the areas it's releasing all the carbon that's stored.........

We are not going to be worrying about oil soon because the lack of corn is going to trump oil. To make biofuels, we are doing more harm as would be seen by a rational person who believes in this. Though since we are making biofuel everything is okay. This is where the bullshit of global warming and the hypocrisy keeps showing. Seems like it's more of a money ploy on many fronts