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Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought
grqb writes "A new study out of the UK suggests that terrestrial sinks across the planet are mopping up much less carbon than predicted, on balance, and so the planet may warm at an even faster rate than expected. The study focused on the carbon content in soil at 6000 sites in the UK between 1978 and 2003 and found that the soil released the equivalent of 8% of the UK's total 1990 carbon dioxide emissions. These emissions are more than the entire reduction in emissions the UK has achieved between 1990 and 2002 as part of its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol. This would effectively cancel out the UK's recent successes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and would have wider global implications as well."
So Katrina is the fault of the SOIL, not Chimpy McBusHitlerBurton?
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From the article: Kirk and colleagues surveyed soil at 6000 sites, spaced 5 kilometres apart, across England and Wales between 1978 and 2003.
See what happens when you get out and do real research? You find out that the computer simulations accepted previously are all inaccurate as hell! Shocking!
End of lesson. You may press the button.
I suppose we'd better just adjust our targets so that we're back to hand-plows and starvation, then.
I'm sure that once the Kyoto supporting countries do even better, they'll find out that some other scourge is addding CO2 to the atmosphere and we'll all have to hold our breath for two hours a day to meet targets.
Fuck the bullshit environmental movement.
The Earth is just trying to rid itself of the disease that is the human race. Just as the human body creates a fever to help attack infections, the Earth is attempting to do the same thing with us. We had lived with it a peace for thousands of years, but now all respect for the planet has been lost. The population explosion along with new machines that allow one person to affect the Earth on scale unprecedented will seal our fate. Save the Rain Forrests?... F-that, we need to acceleration the destruction, lets raise money to deliver more large equipment to the people in the Amazon, so that they can more easily destroy the Earth.
Looking for any old 8-bit Heathkit/Zenith software/hardware - http://heathkit.garlanger.com
then we may experience more and Katrina sized hurricanes. I wonder how the relaxed laws on gas wil affect the environment. With more pollutants being released into the atmosphere, it can't be good.
Only 'flamers' flame!
Does slashdot hate my posts?
Yea, isn't it crazy? The Christians are bringing about their own armageddon by being as stupid as they are and abusing the world the way they do. Self fulfilled prophecies. Sheesh. I say kill them all and let god sort them out!
Another republitard posting anoymously. Good going dude!. That's the way to spread yoru message.
By the way all good republitards know global warming is really caused by those homosexuals. It's god's punishment don't cha know.