Monday November 9, 2009, 11:05 am
#96 had already signed and forwarded...Another Change.Org petition, this is not on Care2 guys, please take a peek.

Thanks C

Monday November 9, 2009, 12:02 pm
Signed thanks Cher

Monday November 9, 2009, 12:02 pm
Thanks Cher.

You signed this petition on Nov 03 and emailed the following representatives:

Barack Obama , Tom Carper and Ted Kaufman

Monday November 9, 2009, 3:14 pm
Kari Dyrdahl Mounds View, MN
Sent letter to Barack Obama , Amy Klobuchar , Betty McCollum , Keith Ellison and Al Franken
Oct 28
& posted on facebook

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 1:00 am
done

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 10:31 am
Now this is the kinda of "capping" we like.... putting a curb on emissions is the right way to go for sure

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 1:17 pm
Signed and noted.Thank you Cher.

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 8:33 pm
Thanks! One small step for man, one 'bigger step' for mankind!

Wednesday November 11, 2009, 3:30 pm
Too bad the Chamber of Commerce backed down from making the EPA prove a case for restricting CO2 in court, because there is now more evidence that the earth deals with the tiny bit of CO2 humans produce with ease. From the University of Bristol in the UK:

Controversial new climate change results

Press release issued 9 November 2009

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.
This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected.

The results run contrary to a significant body of recent research which expects that the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans to absorb CO2 should start to diminish as CO2 emissions increase, letting greenhouse gas levels skyrocket. Dr Wolfgang Knorr at the University of Bristol found that in fact the trend in the airborne fraction since 1850 has only been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade, which is essentially zero.

The strength of the new study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters, is that it rests solely on measurements and statistical data, including historical records extracted from Antarctic ice, and does not rely on computations with complex climate models.

This work is extremely important for climate change policy, because emission targets to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen early next month have been based on projections that have a carbon free sink of already factored in. Some researchers have cautioned against this approach, pointing at evidence that suggests the sink has already started to decrease.

So is this good news for climate negotiations in Copenhagen? “Not necessarily”, says Knorr. “Like all studies of this kind, there are uncertainties in the data, so rather than relying on Nature to provide a free service, soaking up our waste carbon, we need to ascertain why the proportion being absorbed has not changed”.

Another result of the study is that emissions from deforestation might have been overestimated by between 18 and 75 per cent. This would agree with results published last week in Nature Geoscience by a team led by Guido van der Werf from VU University Amsterdam. They re-visited deforestation data and concluded that emissions have been overestimated by at least a factor of two.

Please contact Cherry Lewis for further information.
Further information:

The paper: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing? by Wolfgang Knorr. Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 36, L21710, doi:10.1029/2009GL040613, 2009.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2009/6649.html