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Scientists on Antarctic climate trip



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SCIENTISTS set off to Antarctica yesterday to see if the ice sheets at the edge of the vast continent are melting faster and whether the Southern Ocean is soaking up less climate-warming carbon dioxide.
The Southern Ocean absorbs a large amount of the CO2 emitted by industry, power stations and transport, acting as a brake on climate change.

"Some recent results suggest the Southern Ocean is becoming less effective at absorbing CO2 than it used to be," said Steve Rintoul of Australia's government-backed research arm, the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation.

"If it were to become less effective in absorbing it, that would tend to accelerate the rate of climate change. Our measurements of how much carbon dioxide is accumulating will provide a critical test of this hypothesis."





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  • Last Updated: 22 March 2008 7:54 PM
  • Source: Scotland On Sunday
  • Location: Scotland
  • Related Topics: Climate change
 
1

Unimpressed one,

23/03/2008 09:06:33
Another wee jolly at the expense of taxpayers, with 'scientists' doing noddy research. Still, it's paying mortgages and that's all that matters to these people.
2

Carolyn 1,

Woods Hole, USA 23/03/2008 13:55:33
Notice how everyone now calls it Climate Change?


It's a new category: the Nobel Sucking-Up Prize for Political Correctness - instant fame at the expense of citizens of the planet

A year ago, I stayed with my opinion insisting we were not in Global Warming, but we were in a climate change cycle, I was bombed with criticism from everyone everywhere. No matter what data I showed that proved we were not in Global Warming I was put down with a lengthy list of insults. Oh well. Can I at least say I was right?
Here in my town that did the 'research', we just had the coldest winter in 8 years, and the highest ever, ever, snowfall in Maine, US.

I continually asserted that all that money we were spending to prove we were in a Global Warming should have been spent on solar and wind farm installations.
Just think that with that much time, energy and cash investment how much electricity would now be from green energy....
3

Mr A Roy,

25/03/2008 01:04:10
Scienctists meeting in New York have issued the following declaration, and called upon governments to reject climate change scare stories and scrap all CO2 related taxes.
Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change

"Global warming" is not a global crisis

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