NASA calculates California's Carbon Budget

[dburkhead]

NASA - NASA Calculates a Carbon Budget for the State of California

Key concept:

Researchers report that in 2004, the state’s natural ecosystems absorbed as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as fossil fuel carbons emitted into the atmosphere. They also discovered that during periods of above normal rainfall, ecosystems trapped significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in forests and soils.

All that traffic on California's highways? All that CO2 released by all those cars? Absorbed by the natural ecosystem.

Whoda thunk it? Oh, wait a minute. Just everyone who has been skeptical of AGW claims.

 

[rambone]

NASA? Is that some kind of right wing extremist group that cooks up phony science to give ammunition to the Global Warming deniers?

 

[Feign]

OMG NO WAI!

They'll discredit and argue this until the end of time.

 

[SavageEagle]

Nice find. Thanks for the info. I need to get back onto nasa's site more often.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

That's not enough!

Senator Freeman proposes a law that would prohibit the entire government of California from exhaling. Just think of all the CO2 savings that would transpire if no one in Sacramento exhaled!*


*I would also prohibit the governments of Berkeley, San Fransico, Oakland, L.A., Half Moon Bay, Davis, and most of Santa Cruz.

 

[dburkhead]

That's not enough!

Senator Freeman proposes a law that would prohibit the entire government of California from exhaling. Just think of all the CO2 savings that would transpire if no one in Sacramento exhaled!*


*I would also prohibit the governments of Berkeley, San Fransico, Oakland, L.A., Half Moon Bay, Davis, and most of Santa Cruz.

I would provide visual aids on a useful piece of equipment for helping them achieve this, but it would probably break forum rules.

 

[SavageEagle]

I would provide visual aids on a useful piece of equipment for helping them achieve this, but it would probably break forum rules.

I'm thinking so too. But it's all good. It's you're equipment and not mine. I'd like to have mine back when they're done.

 

[5.56'aholic]

simple solution to rising co2 levels: plant a f@cking tree, morons!

 

[dburkhead]

simple solution to rising co2 levels: plant a f@cking tree, morons!

How many people remember that 1996 "Plant a Tree" commercial for the Arbor Day foundation featuring that rabid left wing fanatic* Charlton Heston?

*After all, a "right winger" would never express any concern for the environment or encourage others to do so as well. Haven't you watched Captain Planet? "Industrialists" and the "Right Wing" positively revel in destruction for its own sake.

 

[rambone]

YouTube - Charlton Heston on Global Climate Change

 

[ar15junkie]

simple solution to rising co2 levels: plant a f@cking tree, morons!