...yep; volcanoes are just part of
the baseline variance;
yet some new complication is afoot!
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and back on topic:
Alaska also has some record high temps,
in the news today.Though the July temperatures anywhere, in any given year, have nothing to do with proving (
or disproving) climate change or global warming theory.
The scale of climate is too long (and variable) for "record" temperatures to serve as evidence for those. Nor is global warming theory based on observations about temperatures or any recent temperature trends. It’s just physics ...that informs climate change and global warming theory.
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Which is why I want to thank you for that neat link.
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/...20&type=ctaHere is the original source:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v511/n7510/full/nature13560.html...
where they mention:
“Our estimate of about 160 petagrams [
gigatonnes/Billions of Tons] of Holocene organic carbon in deep lake basins of Siberia and Alaska increases the circumpolar peat carbon pool estimate for permafrost regions by over 50 per cent.”
...fyi, that is equivalent to over 500 gigatonnes of CO2!
I have been looking for information on just this subject;
since I’m also advocating for building more soil,
instead of only cutting emissions ...as a solution to the greenhouse gas problem.
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...and globally:
Soil carbon is the largest terrestrial pool of carbon, containing 2,200 gigatonnes (Gt) of it.[1] Humans increasingly influence the size of this pool. Soil carbon plays a key role in the carbon cycle, and thus it is important in global climate models.
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equivalent to over 8,000 Billion Tons (Gt) of CO2 ...while we worry about emitting an extra 30-40 Gt each yearAnd that soil carbon is in flux too! Both naturally, and because of anthropogenic land use/land cover changes, soils and soil carbon have
recently become significant players in the global carbon cycle.
Opportunities abound for offsetting our [relatively] puny problem with CO2 emissions.
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