Re: Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Increasing.

I know particulate pollution is increasing so carbon dioxide is probably
too. The real crime is some people don't know or perceive it like i do and
media never talks about prolonged damage. Its the saddest things I ever
absorbed.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> From The Associated Press, 10/22/07:
>
http://www.sfgate.com/flat/archive/2007/10/22/news/archive/2007/10/22/national/w140115D8
1.html
>
> Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Increasing
>
> By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
>
> WASHINGTON, (AP) --
>
> Just days after the Nobel prize was awarded for global warming work,
> an alarming new study finds that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is
> increasing faster than expected.
>
> Carbon dioxide emissions were 35 percent higher in 2006 than in 1990,
> a much faster growth rate than anticipated, researchers led by Josep
> G. Canadell, of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
> Research Organization, report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of
> the National Academy of Sciences.
>
> Increased industrial use of fossil fuels coupled with a decline in the
> gas absorbed by the oceans and land were listed as causes of the
> increase.
>
> "In addition to the growth of global population and wealth, we now
> know that significant contributions to the growth of atmospheric CO2
> arise from the slowdown" of nature's ability to take the chemical out
> of the air, said Canadell, director of the Global Carbon Project at
> the research organization.
>
> The changes "characterize a carbon cycle that is generating
> stronger-than-expected and sooner-than-expected climate forcing," the
> researchers report.
>
> Kevin Trenberth of the climate analysis section of the National Center
> for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. said the "paper raises some
> very important issues that the public should be aware of: Namely that
> concentrations of CO2 are increasing at much higher rates than
> previously expected and this is in spite of the Kyoto Protocol that is
> designed to hold them down in western countries,"
>
> Alan Robock, associate director of the Center for Environmental
> Prediction at Rutgers University, added:
>
> "What is really shocking is the reduction of the oceanic CO2 sink,"
> meaning the ability of the ocean to absorb carbon dioxide, removing it
> from the atmosphere.
>
> The researchers blamed that reduction on changes in wind circulation,
> but Robock said he also thinks rising ocean temperatures reduce the
> ability to take in the gas.
>
> "Think that a warm Coke has less fizz than a cold Coke," he said.
>
> Neither Robock nor Trenberth was part of Canadell's research team.
>
> Carbon dioxide is the leading "greenhouse gas," so named because their
> accumulation in the atmosphere can help trap heat from the sun,
> causing potentially dangerous warming of the planet.
>
> While most atmospheric scientists accept the idea, finding ways to
> reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been a political problem because
> of potential effects on the economy.
>
> Earlier this month, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United
> Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former Vice
> President Al Gore for their work in calling attention to global
> warming.
>
> "It turns out that global warming critics were right when they said
> that global climate models did not do a good job at predicting climate
> change," Robock commented.
>
> "But what has been wrong recently is that the climate is changing even
> faster than the models said. In fact, Arctic sea ice is melting much
> faster than any models predicted, and sea level is rising much faster
> than IPCC previously predicted."
>
> According to the new study, carbon released from burning fossil fuel
> and making cement rose from 7.0 billion metric tons per year in 2000
> to 8.4 billion metric tons in 2006.
>
> A metric tons is 2,205 pounds.
>
> The growth rate increased from 1.3 percent per year in 1990-1999 to
> 3.3 percent per year in 2000-2006, the researchers added.
>
> _____________________________________________
>
> Harry
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