Mauna Loa CO2 January to July trend goes negative first time in history

Steve Keohane,
Bingo! I guess i failed some kind of temptation test by asking that question. But I resisted doing so at least twice before.

Ahem, this is obviously all caused by China reducing their emissions in just one area for the Olympics!!

Nick Burman,
this is only twaddle if you ignore the drum beat of tipping points, steady rise of CO2 due to anthropogenic sources killing our world, sensitive climate driven by positive feedbacks…
Taken in the context of the IPCC scenarios and other touted research this is still exceptional. Of course, since CO2 has never been officially measured over most of the earth, we don’t really know what is happening, do we!!! In other words, since we don’t have official measurements for the inhabited areas, we do not know the gradient between high CO2 areas and the so-called BACKGROUND CO2 levels far from major CO2 sources.
Basically I find it very interesting that we have been hammered with the FACT that the CO2 warming loop is going to kill us if we don’t make ENORMOUS sacrifices such as reducing our CO2 output back to 1990 levels. Of course, even under that scenario it was not expected to have noticeable effects for decades!!
Thanks for reminding us that Warmers work off of RELIGIOUS BELIEF and not scientific method!!
General question,
Has any one approximated the amount of CO2 fixed by the increase of the biomass of the earth found by satellite measurement in the last few years? Also, how much extra CO2 fixing will continue in the future due to this extra mass? As usual, I don’t think we can point the finger at any one cause for this interesting development, although, decreasing temp would SEEM to be the biggest factor.

The amount of CO2 impact in the global atmosphere due to changes in American driving habits would be, I believe, too small to be measured. If you shut down every single car in the US, I don’t believe the change would amount to 1ppm in the global atmosphere CO2 content. People tend to exaggerate their own impact, and project that exaggeration onto their city, state, country, etc. People don’t like to feel that they are insignificant and that is basically the root of the curly light bulb craze.

Regarding changes in Earth’s rotational speed:
variations of atmospheric angular momentum
seem greatly to exceed changes of oceanic
angular momentum in causing length of day
(LOD) changes.
Daily LOD data may be found from links at
http://maia.usno.navy.mil/
finals.all being the most complete. However,
day to day changes are dominated by lunar
tidal effects.
Plots at
http://maia.usno.navy.mil/lplot1.gif
and
http://maia.usno.navy.mil/lplot2.gif
indicate recent LOD since 1973, and
for the recent two years, with tidal
effects removed. The zero points of
each graph is 24 hours, and the variations
are in units of milliseconds.

Is it possible for a mathematical guru to calulate the CO2 released by the oceans for a given temperature rise and relate this to say, a number of SUVs. i.e. one degree C rise per square mile of ocean equals X number of extra SUVs on the road. Conversely, one degree cooling equates to removal of X number of SUVs from the roads.
Might interest the MSM.

Nick Burman
Fact: The fall from January 08 to July 08 is UNIQUE from all measurements back to 1958!
It COULD be “noise” but the uniqueness of this development obviously should not be ignored like you want us to!
And the fact that this unpreceded fall of CO2 concentration just “happends” to appear at the same time that the global temperatures are falling?
Its possible, but not as likely as you want us to believe.

i have been following your blogs ever since.
good keep it up.
it sounds ridiculous for me to have imagine that the world is getting lesser CO2. I had this whatever phobia on this. I had once press-alarm stopped the tube train and rushed out the door as I can breath due to CO2 dropped in the coach, once, and another one was when i got into the plane but just befor i put on the seatbelt, i rushed out just in time before they closed the door, before the flight take off. i made them stranded for almost 20 minutes. living in near south near the belt of heat, i can’t stand teh weather. i kept looking at the sun rise, and waited for the first dawn light rays. i was hoping really for the claer bright lights daily. i enjoyed the stem at the wales mountains even they said it is thinner up there. things are getting weird. i do have this minor athma maybe, but to be trapped in the building on fire at the staircase is one hell of experience, i remembered that i clocked 5 minutes to ran gush down from 42nd floor tower and never i envy anyone on tall building working and facing those hazards. Gosh : as much as i am so sensitive with the wind, our old parents taught us to feel the first wind that blew on our face every dawn 430am when, they said, when the pillar of the earth starts rotating and the slips caused the wind moves. Honestly, there was none since the last two years, instead, either it is calm, or strong winds..no more whispering winds..the heat of the sun are also darn smelly and swampy feels. Ah, i am not a scientist, but enough to inherit a DNA from an old father who was born in 1879, and up to me, i am only the seventh male in the row of family since year 895..lucky i have two male boys, so precious to us in the family, inherit the names of the family great ancestors, yet i knew the movement of the sun and air is not good enough as i keep on buying to spare the medicine box with those de-phlegm from mild cough..weather up there north should be better than here the down south..unfortunately, the quality of people and politics donot care or worry about all these factors..keep us updates..wish god with two ears and can speak thsi language may arrive at the garden and start doing something, instead of yearning for war and ethnic cleansing..political but sun is there to judge..CO2, now we prefer to enjoy in house stay rather than going outside and start throwing all aspects of life that involve outside activities..the world is dirty..am i wrong to say that..?

Before we get all excited about us Americans driving our cars less — news outlets do like to put their own spin on stories — remember that oil is still coming out of the ground and is still being refined. It’s all going somewhere and is still being burned by someone, so all that CO2 is still being produced and still entering the atmosphere. Let’s see what the next few decades show.