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Hurricanes key to carbon uptake by forests
Science Daily ^ | May 2, 2016

Posted on 05/03/2016 3:43:01 PM PDT by sparklite2

New research reveals that the increase in forest photosynthesis and growth made possible by tropical cyclones in the southeastern United States captures hundreds of times more carbon than is released by all vehicles in the US in a given year.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbon; globalwarming; junkscience

1 posted on 05/03/2016 3:43:01 PM PDT by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

Something else for the AGW/greenhouse crowd to ignore.


2 posted on 05/03/2016 3:45:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: sparklite2

I have to drive my SUV a full year just to feed four acres of rain forest.


3 posted on 05/03/2016 3:54:25 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

you should be fiend for not producing enough CO2


4 posted on 05/03/2016 3:57:52 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

i meant fined- not fiend lol


5 posted on 05/03/2016 3:59:01 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434
you should be fiend for not producing enough CO2

They should be fined also :)

6 posted on 05/03/2016 4:05:56 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: sparklite2

Along with the eastern reforestation sounds like a net loss to me.


7 posted on 05/03/2016 4:06:25 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: VTenigma

[[Along with the eastern reforestation sounds like a net loss to me.]]

we’re all going to freeze to death, ‘not enough CO2 in the atmosphere’


8 posted on 05/03/2016 4:08:51 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Cold Heart

Cold Heart; Also drive at night and you’ll feed 8 acres of rain forest. That is good. Somewhere in the Amazon a Jivaro headhunter is thanking you.


9 posted on 05/03/2016 4:21:11 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bob434

Flaw in my theory I guess.


10 posted on 05/03/2016 4:24:34 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: sparklite2

WOW I've never been a Global Warming Denier. I'm a Global Warming Enthusiast.

Now more than ever.

(Gonna go out and look at my compost pile, which is nicely emitting CO2)

11 posted on 05/03/2016 4:39:15 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I support carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide supports me.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Additionally, global warming has been blamed for stronger and more frequent hurricanes (which hasn’t panned out, but that’s beside the point). If the hurricanes result in heightened CO2 uptake, then hurricane frequency/intensity is self-regulating, as the uptake would suppress the next hurricane.


12 posted on 05/03/2016 4:49:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Steely Tom

Ok just saying. Add water to the forest. The trees grow more rapidly. Said growth of trees means the trees breath in more CO2. And release more oxygen. Thus the rain forest is a good thing. Just add water and sunshine. Did I learn this when I was in the 1st grade or was it in kindergarten?! Well, maybe by the 4th grade. I worked in a paper mill in Floyd County Georgia and there were always plenty of soft wood short needle pine trees around. And of course plenty of rain.


13 posted on 05/03/2016 4:50:56 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: sparklite2

“The other side is that hurricanes recharge the aquifers and have an enormous impact on photosynthesis and taking up carbon from the atmosphere.”

This is supposedly directly quoted from one of the researchers, Ana Barros, the James L. Meriam Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. I certainly hope it’s just a misquote (although it’s quoted in several parts of the article), but if the “researcher” doesn’t understand the difference between *carbon* and *carbon dioxide*, then their scientific edumacashun wasn’t too pretty good.

I doubt seriously that this researcher is breathing in *carbon* from the atmosphere. If so, they would be quickly asphyxiated as the *carbon* particles accumulated in their respiratory membranes. And I seriously doubt that the trees are using *carbon* in their respiratory cycle instead of *carbon dioxide”.

I certainly hope that this “researcher” knows the difference between *sodium chloride* and elemental *sodium* (or *chloride*) when they season their food. If not, then they really shouldn’t have lived long enough to become a “researcher”. And if they don’t understand the difference between different molecular combinations, I think much of their “research” should be taken with more than a grain of “salt”.

“According to Barros and Lowman, it is difficult to predict what effects climate change will have on the region’s future...” Anyone who believes in “climate change” based on the level of CO2 in the atmosphere most certainly shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near or doing any kind of “research”.

Methinks these “researchers” don’t really understand the difference between “climate change” and “weather”.


14 posted on 05/03/2016 6:01:57 PM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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To: Bob434

The anti-Science quacks that promote AGW are the fiends!


15 posted on 05/03/2016 6:49:08 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: hadit2here

Climate Change Researchers spend hours staring at holes in the ground and cans of Shinola trying to determine what they are.


16 posted on 05/03/2016 6:54:26 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: hadit2here

Climate Change Researchers spend hours staring at holes in the ground and cans of Shinola trying to determine what they are.


17 posted on 05/03/2016 6:54:29 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Bob434

Those fiends should be fiend... Series?

Dew two ewe knot been a servant end you sing huh diction hairy.


18 posted on 05/03/2016 9:00:39 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: teeman8r

listen- I’m not dyslexic- just myfigner are-


19 posted on 05/03/2016 9:22:40 PM PDT by Bob434
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