. . . the decline?
It looks like carbon doesn’t remain in earth’s atmosphere, and therefore is unlikely to be contributing much to the greenhouse effect.
UPDATE: I’m oversimplifying radically. Vlad calls me out:
Aarrrgh……..what the study actually says is that the percentage of new carbon which is absorbed hasn’t changed….this doesn’t stop the overall carbon level from increasing.
It does mean that the rate at which the carbon level is rising is not increasing as fast as some would have you believe.
That’ll teach me to blog before I’ve had coffee.
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Aarrrgh……..what the study actually says is that the percentage of new carbon which is absorbed hasn’t changed….this doesn’t stop the overall carbon level from increasing.
It does mean that the rate at which the carbon level is rising is not increasing as fast as some would have you believe.
What I’ve also read, though I can’t cite a source, is that what is not increasing is the heat supposedly “trapped” in the atmosphere by carbon. That is, the increasing amount of heat absorbed by the atmosphere is offset by the increased amount of heat released by the atmosphere into space.
Again, I don’t know how valid a statement that is, I just read it somewhere (maybe quoted from one of the climate change skepticism sites?), and it sounded good. 🙂