American Geophysical Union (2009, December 31). No rise of airborne fraction of carbon dioxide in past 150 years, new research finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved January 2, 2010, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
Oscar
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There is more and more evidence turning up to contradict the warmers. But not to worry. They would not let a little thing like the truth interfere with their political agenda.
Anonymous
I did read the study when it came out on Thursday and as some have noted here it does go on to say that the amount of co2 that plants and bodies of water can absorb may have decreased recently (according to some studies. . . not noted in the report).
However, as you seem to be pointing out, it is airborne co2 which is being blamed for Global Warming by the supporters of the theory and most definitely claimed in Gore's documentary and other of his writings. No one is suggesting that co2 in plant life or water is causing our temperatures to rise (which we also now know are not in fact rising). Since their saturation is only now becoming a hypothetical threat due to decreased absorbtion, then why have we been told that GW due to co2 levels in the atmosphere does in fact threaten us in the near future?
I think what's happening here is that legitimate ire over the false claims of rising atmospheric co2 is being swept aside on the basis of the "some studies" statement which is not sited for specifics and only involves a possible rise in plant life and water sources.
EDIT: "Insidious"--- actually the study does not show that. It only states that some studies "suggest" that there may be and increase in plant and water levels and it only hypothesizes that atmospheric levels may now "begin to increase". If there is only now a possibility that they could start to increase, why have GW gurus been claiming that heightened co2 levels are currently high enough to destroy our world as we know it?
Pardon me if after the recent data manipulation scandals I wait to embrace this new study as fact until we have a bit more to go on than mere suggestions of possibilities.
Anonymous
carbon dioxide is heavier than air...once released into the atmosphere,it immediately starts to fall to the ground....
Insidious
The ppm has still increased, and according to this one, single study, the amount of co2 that plants and the oceans can or do reabsorb has decreased.
Quan
"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."