Saturday, March 25, 2023

Exploring the many unknowns of Water’s Role in Climate Change

The demagogues of the Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion don't want you to know that the climatology is still a very inexact science based on bold assumptions and approximations! Largely clueless is still probably the best characterization for climatology!

The sun is treated as a constant! While in fact the sun undergoes cycles and other fluctuations of varying length still largely unexplored and poorly understood!

To this day, scientists still do not even understand water very well or what goes on e.g. in our oceans affecting climate. E.g. the multidecadal oscillation of the Atlantic Ocean was only discovered in the 1980s.

"Covering nearly three-quarters of the Earth, surface water plays a critical role in the carbon cycle of the planet by storing and also emitting greenhouse gases. But exactly how much of a role it plays and its potential to help mitigate climate change is still a question. ...
Up until 10 years ago, there was no definitive count of the full surface area [notice only surface are not depth not expanse, floor etc.] of water bodies on the planet. In 2013, Raymond and colleagues developed the first global map of their surface area and carbon emissions. They found that water bodies are emitting 2 billion tons of carbon as CO2 each year. ...
It is not just how much carbon and other greenhouse gases are being emitted and stored by water bodies that have the attention of YSE researchers. It is also the age of dissolved carbon in water bodies. ...
The term “blue carbon” was first coined in 2009 as a nod to the potential of these ecosystems that store carbon to help limit the global average temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius — an atmospheric tipping point. Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), which include salt marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses, each sequester more carbon per hectare per year than tropical forests. ..."

Exploring the Depths of Water’s Role in Climate Change | Yale School of the Environment Aquatic ecosystems play an essential role in the greenhouse gas emissions cycle. Water bodies can sequester carbon — and they can also release emissions. Reducing these emissions and exploring ways of increasing their potential for carbon uptake is at the center of new climate research at YSE.

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