Oops: No Rise In Killer Carbon Dioxide In 160 Years

Written by: Evrviglnt

My first reaction is to ask whether this kind of information would have seen daylight a year ago when the AGW carbonshirts were blackballing scientists who deviated from the political line:

ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.

Oops.

In contradiction to some recent studies, [Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol] finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.

Out falls another brick in the wall.

But let’s ponder this – can things get so bad on the Anthropogenic Global Warming front that Algore must come out and defend it against a living, breathing skeptic?  Is there any given situation or condition where Algore mounts the stage and takes on critics?  Whenever that is, it’s got to blossom soon because the dark forces behind AGW skepticism are scoring body blow after body blow.  The polls are already trending hard against the concocted crisis and now politicians are starting to run – witness the pullback now on the Boxer/Kerry cap & trade legislation due to come to the House in 2010.  What is probably more interesting to look for now is the long term damage wrought by the absurd claims of AGW cheerleaders.  The credibility of both science and the average environmentalist is damaged, and we can only hope the wound is deep enough to reach the shame nerve.

Consequently, if we are embarked on a cooling trend, a global cooling event is far more devastating than global warming.    Freezing temperatures becoming more common around the globe means less arable land, water locked up in ice and conditions far more inhospitable to man.  If anyone still thinks we can control the earth’s temperatures like pulling levers on a wall, then let’s get to it.  Government ought to be financing SUVs, farm animals and maybe breaching a few volcanoes for good measure.  It’s about life and death – why wait to see if we’re right?