The Latest Carbon News From Science Daily: No Fractional Rise of Atmospheric CO2 in 150 Years

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.

You mean we aren’t destroying the Ozone with all the CO2? You mean the earth balances the CO2 we produce?

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.

OK, you got my attention. I am listening.

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.

You mean some scientists may have fixed their studies to show otherwise? Tell me it isn’t so. First Hadley CRU and now this? Al Gore is going to be destroyed. How could you ruin Al Gore’s New Year’s Celebration? Don’t you know he has billions of dollars to make by pushing the CO2 man-made global warming fraud?

Italicized text taken from Science Daily, December 31, 2009 and is published in is published in Geophysical Research Letters.