Paper finds lifetime of CO2 in atmosphere is only 5.4 years — Paper presented at the SEVENTEENTH SYMPOSIUM ON THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Paper finds lifetime of CO2 in atmosphere is only 5.4 years
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/08/paper-finds-lifetime-of-co2-in.html
A paper presented at the SEVENTEENTH SYMPOSIUM ON THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES finds that the lifetime and residence time of man-made CO2 in the atmosphere is only about 5.4 years, far less than assumed by the IPCC. The paper corroborates prior work by Salby, Humlum et al, Frölicher et al, Cho et al, Calder et al, Francey etl, Ahlbeck, Pettersson, Segalstad, and others which has demonstrated that man-made CO2 is not the primary driver of atmospheric CO2.Fossil Fuel Emissions and Fossil CO2 in the Atmosphere
Luciano Lepori S, Gian Carlo Bussolino, Andrea Spanedda and Enrico Matteoli C
IPCF-CNR, Pisa, Italy
The comparison of fossil fuel emissions (6.4 GtC/yr) with the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 (3.2 GtC/yr) suggests that about half of the anthropogenic CO2 has not remained in the atmosphere: it has dissolved in the ocean or has been taken up by the land. The isotope ratio C13/C12 of atmospheric CO2 has been measured over the last decades using mass spectrometry. From these data the fraction of fossil CO2 in atmospheric CO2 is straightforwardly calculated: 5.9 %(1981) and 8.5 %(2002). These results indicate that the amount of past fossil fuel and biogenic CO2 remaining in the atmosphere, though increasing with anthropogenic emissions, did not exceed in 2002 66 GtC, corresponding to a concentration of 31 ppm, that is 3 times less than the CO2 increase (88 ppm, 24 %) which occurred in the last century. This low concentration (31 ppm) of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere is consistent with a lifetime of t(1/2) = 5.4 years, that is the most reliable value among other in the range 2-13 years, obtained with different measurements and methods. Contrary to the above findings on the concentration of fossil CO2 and its residence time in the atmosphere, in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change it is stated that almost 45 % of anthropogenic emissions, corresponding to 88 ppm or 24 % of the total CO2, have remained in the atmosphere with a mean lifetime of t(1/2) = 30.5 years. On these assumptions are based both the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming and the climate models.
Related: New paper finds ocean along Baja California coast is a net source of CO2 to the atmosphere
H/T to The Stockholm Initiative site for finding this abstract [Google translation from Swedish]:
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First major snow in Buenos Aires since 1918 (Note: this article from 2007)
First major snow in Buenos Aires since 1918
http://iceagenow.info/2013/07/major-snow-buenos-aires-1918/
Thousands cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires
after wet snow fell for hours on Monday. The freezing spell has also extended across to Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay.
Argentina’s National Weather Service said it was the first major snow in Buenos Aires since 22nd June, 1918, though sleet or freezing rain have been periodically reported in decades since.
Higher elevations in western and central Argentina were also blanketed with snow.
The snow followed a bitter cold snap in late May that saw subfreezing temperatures, the coldest temperatures reported in 40 years in Buenos Aires.
For the last five days, polar temperatures have affected almost all of Argentina, with at least six people dying of the cold in various parts of the country.
Early morning temperatures in Buenos Aires dropped as low as 1.6 degrees C.
Parts of Jujuy and Mendoza provinces saw temperatures drop to -10 degrees C and experienced heavy snowfall.
Meteorologists predict that the cold will last for several more days and that low temperatures could get even more extreme.
Exposing the global warming con job.
http://looksouthtours.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/cold-weather-snap-hits-argentina-with-first-major-snow-in-buenos-aires-since-1918/…
Australia Kills Carbon Tax, And With it $4 Billion Of Green Spending
Australia Kills Carbon Tax, And With it $4 Billion Of Green Spending
http://www.thegwpf.org/australia-kills-carbon-tax-4-billion-green-handouts/
Compensation for industry will be pared back and programs funded by the carbon tax could be cut to help the government find the $4 billion it will cost to shift the fixed carbon price to a floating price a year earlier than scheduled.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is expected to announce the final details on Tuesday, confirmed on Sunday that the carbon price will shift to a floating price on July 1, 2014, enabling the government to distance itself from Julia Gillard’s policy, which has caused Labor enormous political damage.
The Greens slammed the measure as environmentally irresponsible, manufacturers welcomed it as providing much-needed relief, and the coal, gas and minerals sectors condemned it for not going far enough, saying the carbon price should be scrapped altogether.
Before the change, the carbon price was to be fixed at $25.40 in 2014-15, up from $24.15 in 2013-14, before moving to a floating price linked to the European Union scheme on July 1, 2015.
That shift to a floating price will now occur a year earlier. The change from $24.50 to a European price of about $6 to $10 will cost the budget about $4 billion in 2014-15.
Mr Rudd stressed the change would be revenue neutral, the policy goals still achieved and consumers given relief.
“The key thing though is that with this change, it would mean that Australian families have less cost of living pressures and it would also mean strong action still on the environment and climate change,’’ he said.
Treasurer Chris Bowen said the compensation for low and middle-income households would not be reduced, even though it was designed for the higher fixed price.
A lower carbon price also meant lower energy prices. Mr Rudd identified high energy prices last week as the key impediment to productivity growth.
Under the policy change, a dual income couple, for example, with two children aged three and eight, would reduce their annual cost of living by about $420.
But Mr Bowen said industry compensation “will be calibrated to match new arrangements’’.
This would include reducing the value of free permits given to trade-exposed industries. In the May budget, programs funded by the carbon tax were cut to fill the revenue hole created by the lower than expected carbon price in 2015-16 when the link with the EU …
Paper finds the Alps were nearly ice-free 2000 years ago during the Roman Warming Period
Paper finds the Alps were nearly ice-free 2000 years ago during the Roman Warming Period
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/07/paper-finds-alps-were-nearly-ice-free.html
Google translation + editing, from the German EIKE site and added resources:
That the Alps were largely ice-free 2000 years ago during the Roman Warming Period, demonstrated wood finds in today’s glacial alpine regions by Dr. Christian Schlüchter. Dr. Schlüchter is Professor of Quaternary and Environmental Geology at the University of Bern, and lecturer at ETH Zurich.Dr. Schlüchter investigated high flood deposits of a glacial river in the immediate foreland of the Lower Bernese Oberland and found 30 to 60 centimeters thick pieces of wood and remnants of a moor. Tree remains were associated with a Arvenstamm (alpine conifer) and dated to 4,920 ± 60 years before present. The Moor remains dated to 2,100 ± 50 years before present. The finds are extraordinary, especially since trees and a marsh occur only at locations where no permanent ice is present and the tree line that was significantly higher than today. The previous datings revealed that in the last 10,000 years, slightly more than 50% of the time the glaciers were significantly shorter than today.Prof. Schlüchter: “Between 1900 and 2300 years ago the lower tips of the glaciers lay at least 300 metres higher than today. At the time of the Romans they would hardly have been recognised as glaciers for the simple reason that their lower reaches lay above the Alpine passes that were used at the time and would not have been an obstacle.“ This would also explain why, in the otherwise very detailed accounts, the Roman chronicles contain hardly any mention of glaciers. When Hannibal in 218 BC with his war elephants (in winter!) crossed the Alps and invaded the Roman heartland, the alpine passes were largely ice-free. This was the time of the Roman climate optimum. Fig. 2 left below shows how it looked there after reconstruction at that time. Schlüchter says, “These findings call for a fundamental revision of the prevalent view of a relatively strong coverage of the Alps with glaciers since the ice age. Because for long periods the Alps were greener than they are today.”Martin Funk (5), Professor for Glaciology at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), looked at Schlüchter’s results. “I see no reason to doubt the results and the conclusions overall, at the most a few details,“ he said.Fig.2 left shows the Susten Pass …
More wisdom from Paul Ehrlich — Michael Mann ‘under attack by morons and crooks’
More wisdom from Paul Ehrlich — Michael Mann ‘under attack by morons and crooks’
Here’s a tweet from this illustrious member of the National Academy of Sciences:…
Does frustrated warmist Phil Plait need anger management training?: When he reads Mann’s latest global warming book, his “jaw hurts from being clenched so tightly”; people who don’t fear CO2 are “fiddling while the world burns”
Does frustrated warmist Phil Plait need anger management training?: When he reads Mann’s latest global warming hoax book, his “jaw hurts from being clenched so tightly”; people who don’t fear CO2 are “fiddling while the world burns”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/does-frustrated-warmist-phil-plait-need.html
Michael Mann: Climate scientist talks about the attack against him.Mann gave a talk about the attacks he has endured. It’s only 20 minutes long, and summarizes the current situation engagingly and enragingly….But the “enraging” part is still there—that duly-elected public officials would waste so much time, effort, and tax dollars on witch hunts like these is galling, amplified even more so by the import and stakes involved. …Mann has written a book about his trials and tribulations, called, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.” It’s a great read, but I get so angry reading it that I can only take it in small chunks; my jaw hurts from being clenched so tightly. I’m glad he wrote it, though; the attacks on science truly are enraging, and that’s why I keep writing about them, too. They must stop.So watch the video, read Mann’s book, and keep yourself up-to-date on what the forces of antiscience are up to. As I have said, and clearly as I need to continue to say, they are fiddling while the world burns.…
Update: Murry Salby and Macquarie University – University Replies
Murry Salby and Macquarie University – MU Reply
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2013/07/murry-salby-and-macquarie-university-mu.html
The Professor and the Media ManagerProf Murry Salby and Joanne WheatleyNCTCS feels that it is a disgrace that Universities are pushing for a consensus ( a non-scientific rather a political term) and are terminating their arrangements with outstanding Professors likeDon EasterbrookBob CarterMurry SalbyHowever, NCTCS Blog has received the following from [email protected] in response to Professor Murry Salby’s termination from Macquarie University. See Murry Salby’s initial thoughts HERE. Fairness says that NCTCS should publish Macquarie University’s response.It is up to the reader to make up their own mind. STATEMENT REGARDING THE TERMINATION OF PROFESSOR MURRY SALBY 10 July 2013Macquarie University does not normally comment on the circumstances under which employees leave the University. However, we feel in this instance it is necessary to do so in order to correct misinformation.The decision to terminate Professor Murry Salby’s employment with Macquarie University had nothing to do with his views on climate change nor any other views. The University supports academic freedom of speech and freedom to pursue research interests.Professor Salby’s employment was terminated firstly, because he did not fulfil his academic obligations, including the obligation to teach. After repeated directions to teach, this matter culminated in his refusal to undertake his teaching duties and he failed to arrive at a class he had been scheduled to take.The University took this matter very seriously as the education and welfare of students is a primary concern. The second reason for his termination involved breaches of University policies in relation to travel and use of University resources.The termination of his employment followed an extensive and detailed internal process, including two separate investigations undertaken by a committee chaired by a former Australian Industrial Relations Commissioner and including a union nominee.Media Contact:p: (02) 9850 1039 e: [email protected] A copy of this release is available online at www.mq.edu.au/newsroom…
More barking madness from the Obama administration: If our hospitals spend more money and time trying to emit less carbon dioxide “they can actually help keep people out of the emergency room”
More barking madness from the Obama administration: If our hospitals spend more money and time trying to emit less carbon dioxide “they can actually help keep people out of the emergency room”
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/07/more-barking-madness-from-obama.html
Climate Change Is a Health Hazard: How Obama Is Using Healthcare To Make People Care About Climate Change – ABC News the White House bestowed what they’ve dubbed the “Champions of Change” award on 11 people they say are “protecting public health in a changing climate” on Tuesday morning….Doctor Linda Rudolph, head of the Center for Climate Change and Health at the Public Health Institute, said during the panel that “climate change is the greatest global health challenge of our time.”So what can people do about it?Hospitals and healthcare providers should play a big role, experts say. Hospitals themselves are actually big producers of waste. They use lots of fossil fuels and their attention has been focused on helping people, not the environment.They need instead to recognize that by shifting some focus to their environmental impact, they can actually help keep people out of the emergency room. By reducing waste output, they can combat things like allergies and asthma, panelists said.…