Read here. As agenda-driven alarmists and MSM hysteria-mongers have monotonously repeated, there is a "consensus" regarding global warming. This "consensus" though was primarily based on virtual climate models and their predictions. Unfortunately for the alarmists and the IPCC, the climate models have proven to be terribly flawed by newer and more comprehensive research. To add to the continuous climate modeller misery of flaws, another major one was recently documented in peer-reviewed research.
Sierra et al. discovered that climate models are presently incapable of accurately modeling the release of CO2 from the soil, which holds multiple times more carbon than the atmosphere. In essence, climate model predictions will continue to be wrong as long as soil CO2 releases continue to be incorrectly accounted for.
"A new study concludes that models may be predicting releases of atmospheric carbon dioxide that are either too high or too low, depending on the region, because they don’t adequately reflect variable temperatures that can affect the amount of carbon released from soil.
"*There is concern that a large portion of this carbon will be released to the atmosphere as global average temperatures increase...*Too little attention has been paid to the effect of temperature variability in this process...*In high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, temperature variability is expected to decrease, and release of soil carbon will probably be lower than that predicted by changes in average temperature...* At lower latitudes, where both average temperature and variability are expected to increase, the release of soil carbon will probably be higher than that predicted by changes in average temperature.
“The findings of this study can greatly modify past predictions about the effects of future average temperatures on ecosystem respiration,” the scientists wrote in their conclusion. “Changes in both temperature and precipitation variance would likely produce complex behaviors not incorporated in current model predictions.”" [Sierra, C. A., Harmon, M. E., Thomann, E., Perakis, S. S., Loescher, H. W. 2011: Biogeosciences]
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