https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/02/for-the-second-time-in-a-week-climate-scientists-surprised-with-an-increased-co2-absorption-mechanism/

From the “But the science was settled!” department.

You may remember just four days ago, WUWT ran this story: Oops, Science Was “Settled”—Until It Wasn’t: Plants Absorb 31% More CO? Than We Thought

Now, hot on the heels of that one, another underestimated CO? absorption has been found: New Study Reveals Oceans Absorb More CO2 Than Previously Thought.
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Now, cumulatively, within a week, we now have a 38% difference in CO? absorption not previously known to climate science. That’s big.

The two recent studies on oceanic and terrestrial CO? absorption reveal significant, previously underestimated roles of natural carbon sinks, which have strong implications for climate models and predictions. Here’s an quick analysis of these findings and their combined impact on climate sensitivity and modeling.
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We’ve known for some time that climate models have been running “hot” due to some of the emission scenarios like RCP 8.5 being unrealistic in CO? growth rates in the future. See: New Confirmation that Climate Models Overstate Atmospheric Warming. Perhaps these new findings will cool some of those models (assuming climate science has any integrity left) and we’ll hear less about a projected climate doomsday being just around the corner.

One item he mentions discusses a study where a 31% greater absortion of CO2 by the biosphere was found compared to prior understanding. This means most of the modeling and projections of climate doom and over heating, etc., are now flawed/ suspect, further reducing the level of climate catastrophe and need for urgent “corrective actions” or Zero Day targets, etc. I did not know about this before today, but it looks like the report has been out for at least a few months now:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/29/oops-science-was-settled-until-it-wasnt-plants-absorb-31-more-co?-than-we-thought/

Thus Britain and the rest of us should take a welcome step back in terms of bad policies and worse investments. I think the consensus was already turning away from catestrophic views before I saw this [with many vested interests still pushing falsehoods], but it certainly compounds the evidence in favor of a more scientific and responsible look at the real degree and causes of “global warming”, if any. And that voiding our technological civilization by reducing use of fossil fuels is no longer urgent. Good thing that Trump seems to also already have some alignment towards this viewpoint.

It would mean an absolute revolution across all sectors, but I found some of the conclusions rather jolting. Such things as these to be implemented by 2050, for example (only one generation away):

2030-2049:
* All remaining airports close
* All shipping declines to zero
* Beef and lamb phased out, along with all imports not transported by train; fertiliser use greatly reduced

There are many others, not necessarily as shocking as these – the description of the proposed role of scrap metal recycling, for example, is relatively reasonable.

But it sounds to me like a recipe to essentially take Britain back to the eighteenth century, maybe with somewhat better health care and faster trains (I know they didn’t have trains back then, but you get the point); but Britain really would be writing itself out of the game if all of this were in fact to happen, it seems to me.

(One amusing detail under the report’s post-2050 vision for the shipping sector: “Some naval ships operate with onboard nuclear power and new storage options may allow electric power”. So if there is still such a thing as the Royal Navy by then, I guess it’ll be running under canvas once more? Good luck with that when the Chinese come to take your little island away from you.)

J.J.:

This is what makes me so crazy about all the Victim Mentality going around. Whatever one’s circumstances, one must persevere, not seek excuses.

I’m so grateful for all my teachers, direct and indirect, who taught me thus.

But I just wouldn’t do it.

I kept thinking of my mother and my friends on antidepressants who were constantly tweaking their meds to fix depression and never getting better. One of them ended up in a parked car on the beach at dawn slitting his throat with a samurai sword.

Sorry to be so graphic.

I found my way out with a combination of physical exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy, Tony Robbins, Joan of Arc and Jesus Christ.

I don’t claim my solution would work for everyone. Later on I found my way out of obesity with Tim Ferriss’s “Slow Carb Diet.”

Western medicine is great when it’s great, but I’m less sure when it comes to chronic or mental conditions. It’s worth looking for alternatives. If one can avoid the drug carousel, it’s better.
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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

–Matthew 7:7-8

Ah me.

I knew my mother was in trouble when I discovered that she was taking drugs to counteract the side-effects of the drugs that she was taking to counteract the side-effects of the drugs that she was taking to counteract the side-effects of the drugs she had started taking to make her less crazy in the first place.

She still ended up slitting her wrists.

Goddamn doctors and psychiatrists.

Later on they admitted, “Woops!”

A lot of people stop taking the drugs for a number of reasons, including side effects. Most of them gain the weight back.

I read somewhere that they are now developing drugs that spare muscle.