Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Ice extent [higher than it was in 2006]; ice age increases over last year
New data on ice age shows that the amount of older, thicker ice has increased slightly over last year.
Coolists 3 – Warmists 0
Global temperatures continue their overall stagnation that has taken hold over the last decade or so, and have plummeted over the last three months, defying the global warming alarmists predictions of a temperature spiral as CO2 emissions continue to rise.
Is man-made CO2 different: 1000 years? Try 4 years. « JoNova
There are a few clues that maybe CO2 doesn’t idle the centuries away aloft, and that (I know you’ll be shocked) the Climate Commission (and IPCC) have overstated things: if emissions are absorbed by the global system in a matter of months, it rather blows the idea that we have to act decades ahead to stop the catastrophe. If CO2 levels adjust quickly, our “sins” will be much more quickly forgiven, and we can wait-and-see.

The thousand year timeframe doesn’t fit very well with NASA’s official carbon cycle, and the empirical evidence.

You can see below in the NASA diagram that plants absorb 16% of all the carbon dioxide in the entire atmosphere each and every year (121Gt of the 750 Gt in the air) and oceans absorb 12%, meaning that 28% of all the CO2 in the global atmosphere is sucked down each year. Let’s call it “one quarter”.

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