New Study: Climate Models Miss This Natural CO2 Source Hiding in Plain Sight
In a new study, Professor of Earth Sciences Dr. István Kovács emphasizes that climate models fail to account for CO2 emissions linked to tectonic processes or widespread mantle degassing.
Instead, the modern carbon budget accountants primarily consider CO2 emissions from the tiny number of Earth’s active volcanoes and ignore the non-negligible mantle-derived emission quantities of from continental regions where no active volcanism exists.
So while on one hand it is true that “the natural geological flux from Earth’s interior continues to play an essential role in regulating atmospheric CO2 over geological timescales,” on the other hand “our understanding is heavily biased towards areas of active volcanism.”
This active-volcanism-only bias serves to severely underestimate natural contributions to the carbon cycle and consequently leads to inaccurate flux measurements.
source notrickszone.com
very old white guy
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It matters not. CO2 is not a problem.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
Even though we know that Galileo Galilei wrote a book titled Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences which was first published in the Italian Language about 400 years ago we also know that Stone Henge was begun maybe 4000 years ago. And we know we know that the Leaning Tower of Pisa exists.
I have yet to read a that it leans because a plumb bob was used to define vertical for its East-West walls. Will anyone please direct us to where WE can read what I have just written. And if there is no response to this comment we have an explanation why we do not see the OBVIOUS because we do not. observe what can NATURALLY be seen
Have a good day, Jerry
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JFK
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So, can we now ask them to tax the mantle instead of us?
Or, perhaps, they never cared about the climate to begin with…?
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