Climate Change - its biggest story of the year comes on the last day of the year. - no CO2 increases !!!

Editor's notes: the article following our "notes" is most definitely NOT from a radical, right-wing, truth hating publication. Midknight Review names this story the single biggest Global Warming story of 2009 because it dispels the Gore-ism that we are all going to die by 2016 (the message of An Inconvenient Truth) and stands in direct challenge to the information collected for the Keeling Curve. Few references are made to the fact that CO2 made-man emissions account for only 3% of CO2 emissions, and now this story - that in the larger, global picture, the increase is negligible. In fact, in a related story, scientists have found that things are actually "growing faster than they are dying" with the scientist following that observation with this comment: "weird." (see the story and video here). While these people still believe in the harmful effects of their warming "facts," they are admitting to certain realities that do no jive with their "science," hence such exclamations as "weird." We refer the reader to a story placed on Page Seven (see Table of Contents above) titled: Climate Change is Natural: 100 Reasons Why.
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New research finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades, contrary to some recent studies. (Credit: iStockphoto)

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.

However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.

Many climate models also assume that the airborne fraction will increase. Because understanding of the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide is important for predicting future climate change, it is essential to have accurate knowledge of whether that fraction is changing or will change as emissions increase.

To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.

In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.

The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.

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