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Saturday, November 21, 2020

2020 study -- Refutes climate alarmists who are convinced rising temperatures will cause peatlands to release much of their stored carbon back to the atmosphere as CO2

A brief summary from the CO2 Science website:
http://www.co2science.org/articles/V23/nov/a1.php
published November 2

Malhotra, A., Brice, D.J.,
Childs, J., Graham, J.D.,
Hobbie, E.A., Stel, H.V.,
Feron, S.C., Hanson, P.J.
and Iversen, C.M.

2020

Peatland warming strongly
increases fine-root growth. 

 
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences USA 117:
17,627-17,634.


" ... many climate alarmists are convinced rising temperatures will cause peatlands to release much of their stored carbon back to the atmosphere in the form of CO2, thereby providing a strong positive feedback to anthropogenic CO2-induced global warming. The latest study indicating otherwise comes from Malhotra et al. (2020)"

" ... they demonstrate the unlikelihood of a rapid decay and return of peatland carbon back to the atmosphere in response to rising temperatures, which observation directly contrasts with the alarmist prediction that it will."