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One of the many misleading things done by climate scientists is to splice together data derived via different measurement methods. The CO2 curve 800000 years b
by zosima 3y ago
One of the many misleading things done by climate scientists is to splice together data derived via different measurement methods.
The CO2 curve 800000 years back is an excellent example.
CO2 in air bubbles in ice will diffuse into the ice during the many millenia the ice have been stored under pressure. You can therefore expect the ice core CO2 to be lower than hypothetical atmospheric measurements at the same time.
The diffusion is expected to progress fastest at the start, and then more slowly.
Still the artifact is absolutely obvious as the CO2 concentration peaks are lower
and lower the further back in time it goes.
Yet of course someone had to splice it all together and not even add error bars.
- japanuspus 3y agoNot sure if you are trolling of really believe this to be true, but for anyone else assuming good faith: The diffusion aspect is (of course) well-modeled, see e.g. references under "past greenhouse gasses" at [0]. [0]: https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/ice-cores/ice-core-basics/ https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/ice-c...
- zosima 3y agoWhere is it well-modelled? Noble gasses will diffuse differently from CO2. And on-top of diffusion of course CO2 will make hydrogen bonds with water in the ice. It is well-understood that many ice cores give the same relative shape of peaks of various gasses through time. Going from there to claiming knowing the absolue concentrations without very large error bars, is just not science.
- zosima 3y agoAlso, btw, this one is fun: "Carbon dioxide measurements from older ice in Greenland is less reliable, as meltwater layers have elevated carbon dioxide (CO2 is highly soluble in water)."
- zosima 3y agoThis is a very interesting read: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/co2-diffusion-in-polar-ice-observations-from-naturally-formed-co2-spikes-in-the-siple-dome-antarctica-ice-core/8C8638D9EC90AEA53B90B3DE70E594C0 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciolog... They have found some meltwater layers with unexpectedly large quantities of CO2 > 750ppm. But they also show that there is unexpected heavy diffusion around the meltwater layers. And they argue very compellingly, that the ice core CO2 records have been smoothed through natural diffusion. Why is this information not given when showing this graph?
- MichaelZuo 3y ago>750 ppm CO2 is incredible, if that's true it's no wonder that interglacial maximums could have been 5 degrees warmer than present day. What's the causal explanation behind that much CO2 though? Super-volcano eruptions?
- zosima 3y agoThey explain in the paper. It's very likely an artifact. But from the layers around it, it becomes clear that through the years these high CO2 bubbles leak CO2 to nearby layers. And so CO2 highs are diminished in the ice core record and CO2 lows have been raised.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoBut in the case it's not an artifact?