Global warming will be faster than expected

[OKIsItJustMe]

https://www.liu.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/1.661226?l=en

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[font size=5]Global warming will be faster than expected [/font]

[font size=4]Global warming will progress faster than what was previously believed. The reason is that greenhouse gas emissions that arise naturally are also affected by increased temperatures. This has been confirmed in a new study from Linköping University that measures natural methane emissions.[/font]

[font size=3]“Everything indicates that global warming caused by humans leads to increased natural greenhouse gas emissions. Our detailed measurements reveal a clear pattern of greater methane emissions from lakes at higher temperatures,” says Sivakiruthika Natchimuthu, doctoral student at Tema Environmental Change, Linköping University, Sweden, and lead author of the latest publication on this topic from her group.

Over the past two years the research team at Linköping University has contributed to numerous studies that all point in the same direction: natural greenhouse gas emissions will increase when the climate gets warmer. In the latest study the researchers examined the emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from three lakes. The effects were clear and the methane emissions increased exponentially with temperature. Their measurements show that a temperature increase from 15 to 20 degrees Celsius almost doubled the methane level. The findings was recently published in Limnology and Oceanography.



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“We’re not talking about hypotheses anymore. The evidence is growing and the results of the detailed studies are surprisingly clear” says David Bastviken, professor at Tema Environmental Change, Linköping University.

This means that warming will be faster than expected from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions alone. According to Professor Bastviken this also means that any reductions in anthropogenic greenhouse emissions is a double victory, by both reducing the direct effect on warming, but also by preventing the feedback with increased natural emissions.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.10222

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

and thanks.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. You’re welcome (no text)

[pscot]

3. all aboard the Singularity Express

[Binkie The Clown]

4. But, but, the Wall Street Journal said it won't affect us for a long, long time.

And those Wall Street Journal guys are pretty smart, right?

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. Well, a long, long time might be “faster than expected”…

…if you don’t expect it to ever happen.

[Binkie The Clown]

6. Then too,

Wall street is only capable of thinking in terms of the fiscal quarter. Anything longer than three months is a long, long time to them.

[NickB79]

7. Positive feedback loops are a bitch. NT