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Artikeln är ju ännu mer spännande samt fylld med vaga formuleringar. Vad sägs om denna:
Sedan är det ju spännande att han helt undviker det faktum att CO2 inte driver temperaturhöjningarna i isborrkärnor utan bara pratar om en samvarians utan att nämna lagget.
Mycket snack om olika feedbackprocesser utan att nämna exakt vad han avser och vilka mekanismer han använder.
Kan du inte hitta något material som tar upp lite mer detaljer kring olika feedbackmekanismer. Dvs hur de fungerar istället för artiklar som enbart diskuterar existensen av feedbackmekanismer och deras eventuella påverkan.
Det är svårt att hitta mer detaljerade vetenskapliga artiklar om saken som inte kostar pengar eller kräver medlemskap. Jag tog fram några om feedback på vattenånga. Men jag hittade en intressant artikel i Nature om just metan. Hela artikeln kostar pengar, tyvärr.
Water vapor feedback and global warming
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The Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation in Global Warming Experiments
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The Role of
Water Vapor Feedback in Unperturbed Climate Variability and Global Warming
A methane feedback from the past strikes again
Bogs, not oceans, may have been the source of an increase in atmospheric methane
What triggered the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) about 55 million years ago, which saw the fastest period of warming documented in Earth's geological history? The PETM is associated with a rapid rise in greenhouse gases, particularly methane -- but the big question is where did the methane come from?
bog.jpgThe most common answer has been the ocean (methane hydrates), but new research in Nature casts doubt on the ocean theory -- instead finding chemical evidence that the methane came from terrestrial sources, bogs, which were themselves stimulated by rising temperatures -- an amplifying feedback. The lead author says:
Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming
K. M. Walter1, S. A. Zimov2, J. P. Chanton3, D. Verbyla4 and F. S. Chapin, III1
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Large uncertainties in the budget of atmospheric methane, an important greenhouse gas, limit the accuracy of climate change projections1, 2. Thaw lakes in North Siberia are known to emit methane3, but the magnitude of these emissions remains uncertain because most methane is released through ebullition (bubbling), which is spatially and temporally variable. Here we report a new method of measuring ebullition and use it to quantify methane emissions from two thaw lakes in North Siberia.
We show that ebullition accounts for 95 per cent of methane emissions from these lakes, and that methane flux from thaw lakes in our study region may be five times higher than previously estimated3. Extrapolation of these fluxes indicates that thaw lakes in North Siberia emit 3.8 teragrams of methane per year, which increases present estimates of methane emissions from northern wetlands (< 6–40 teragrams per year; refs 1, 2, 4–6) by between 10 and 63 per cent.
We find that thawing permafrost along lake margins accounts for most of the methane released from the lakes, and estimate that an expansion of thaw lakes between 1974 and 2000, which was concurrent with regional warming, increased methane emissions in our study region by 58 per cent. Furthermore, the Pleistocene age (35,260–42,900 years) of methane emitted from hotspots along thawing lake margins indicates that this positive feedback to climate warming has led to the release of old carbon stocks previously stored in permafrost.