Comment by bradjohnson
4 days ago
No. Climate scientists did not base all of their current models on a 1980 study about how much CO2 trees can technically absorb.
4 days ago
No. Climate scientists did not base all of their current models on a 1980 study about how much CO2 trees can technically absorb.
That's a straw man.
I expect climate models contain a lot of parameters that aren't related to plant uptake of CO2, and some that are. I expect that, until now, the latter have been based on the 1980 study, because otherwise this latest result would not be news.
I also expect that the contribution of plant CO2 uptake is a large factor in these models, so a significant change like this will potentially have a significant effect on predictions.
Are any of these expectations wrong? If so, which ones?