Scientists Just Discovered Their Past Carbon Budget Guesses Have All Along Been Twice As Wrong As Th

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Scientists Just Discovered Their Past Carbon Budget Guesses Have All Along Been Twice As Wrong As They Thought

By Kenneth Richard on 7. September 2020
 
A new assumption about carbon budgets reveals climate scientists have been vastly underestimating (by a factor of 2) the amount of carbon absorbed by the ocean for decades. Every past carbon budget estimate has been twice as wrong as the current estimate.

When it comes to the ocean heat fluxes and source vs. sink carbon budget estimates, climate scientists have been providing little more than educated guesses for decades.

For example, climate models have long suggested the ocean heat fluxes may only vary around 1 W/m². But “objective” analyses of oceanic latent heat flux (LHF) using different assumptions (equations) reveals fluxes were likely closer to 10 W/m² during 1981-2005 (Yu and Weller, 2007). So our modeled guesses were off by a factor of 10 compared to newer analyses.

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[Smokin Joe]

Just a small sampling of the forms that are made of CaCO3 (Calcium Carbonate). Every molecule has a carbon atom in it. More common are the innumerable foraminifera, which live in the upper 300 ft. of the oceans, and form the basis of marine food chains. So, yes, there is a tremendous amount of biologically fixed carbon which ends up as anything from carbonate ooze to reef rock and carbonate beach sand.

That Climate scientists underestimated this is no surprise, they seem to ignore the carbon dioxide which is used by plants in photosynthesis, too.