Reversed Science: Southern Seas Act As Big Carbon Sink Or Something

by William Teach | September 12, 2015 7:32 am

Is this the latest excuse[1] from the Cult of Climastrology? Or an acknowledgement that science can change when scientists do science things? Both?

Breathe in, breathe out, in, out… Like a giant lung, the Southern Ocean seasonally absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and releases it back later in the year. But on an annual average the seas surrounding Antarctica absorb significantly more CO2 than they release. Most importantly, these seas remove a large part of the CO2 that human activities emit into the atmosphere, thereby slowing down the growth of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, lessening the rate of climate change. Although the Southern Ocean represents no more than a quarter of the total surface of the world’s oceans, it accounts for 40 percent of the global oceanic uptake of that human-made CO2.

Well, that’s a heck of a thing

From the year 2005, however, scientists pointed out that the Southern Ocean carbon sink might have begun to “saturate.” Based on model results, they suggested that it had not increased since the late 1980s. This was unexpected as one had assumed that a direct relationship existed between the magnitude of the carbon sink and the concentration of atmospheric CO2: the higher the concentration of CO2 in the air, the greater the amount of CO2 absorbed by the sea.

Whoops, 97% settled-consensus totally wrong again: "Upswing in absorption of CO2 in Southern Ocean over last decade" http://t.co/d6SBHntBnC[2]

— hockey schtick (@hockeyschtick1) September 10, 2015[3]

Of course, we will soon be told that this will lead to total doom in one form or fashion. We’ll surely hear about how all the sea life WILL DIE as the Southern seas turn to battery acid from “carbon pollution.”

(Jo Nova[4]) The Southern Ocean absorbs 40% of the global oceanic uptake in CO2. For most of the last ten years researchers thought it was weaker, or at “saturation” point and not able to absorb more CO2. Instead, it looks like it has been absorbing more again and by the year 2010 was back up to full power. This means there was a lot more natural variation than scientists (and their models) thought.The GCM’s are meant to be able to predict the oceans.

Back in 2007, New Scientist[5] broadcast that the slowdown has “far reaching implications”, things were worse than the IPCC’s projections. Things were 20 years ahead of the IPCC’s schedule and it was “scary”. Instead the IPCC was 20 years behind real life, and the models were as bad as the skeptic projected. Will New Scientist tell the world?

No. No they won’t. And the 97% crowd won’t admit their mistakes, and that their computer models fail in the real world, either.

Crossed at Pirate’s Cove[6]. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach[7].

Endnotes:
  1. excuse: http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/11/updated-list-of-64-excuses-for-18-26.html
  2. http://t.co/d6SBHntBnC: http://t.co/d6SBHntBnC
  3. September 10, 2015: https://twitter.com/hockeyschtick1/status/642063027664109568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
  4. Jo Nova: http://joannenova.com.au/2015/09/southern-ocean-back-in-business-as-a-carbon-sink-models-were-wrong/
  5. New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11876-southern-ocean-already-losing-ability-to-absorb-co2/
  6. Pirate’s Cove: http://www.thepiratescove.us/
  7. @WilliamTeach: http://twitter.com/WilliamTeach

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