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Plants temporarily halted the acceleration of rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, new research suggests.
From 2002 through 2014, CO2 levels measured over the oceans climbed from around 372 parts per million to 397 parts per million. But the average rate of that rise remained steady despite increasing carbon emissions from human activities, researchers report online November 8 in Nature Communications. After pouring over climate measurements and simulations, the researchers attribute this steadying to changes in the relative amount of CO2 absorbed and released by plants.
The work is the first to clearly demonstrate that plants can affect the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 over long time periods, says study coauthor Trevor Keenan, an earth systems scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Still, human emissions remain the dominant driver of CO2 levels, he says. "If we keep emitting as much as we are, and what we emit keeps going up, then it won't matter very much what the plants do."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @06:51AM
They don't know what's going on, and most of their predictions are just educated guesses. Everytime a guess proves to be inaccurate, they are left grasping at straws to explain WHY.
You must spend all your time on facebook because your analysis is totally on the level of facebook fake-news.
"They" have a pretty good idea of what's going on, predictions have been pretty accurate, probably too conservative. When new information is discovered that's used to refine their understanding because science. Just because their understanding is imperfect doesn't make it wrong. If it did then every single thing you have ever said would be wrong. Oh, wait...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 13 2016, @07:21PM
"predictions have been pretty accurate"
Oh, that's right - the hocky puck chart. Yeah, to bad that New York city is now under six feet of water. Lucky for the natives that their dwellings were built more than six feet high.
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