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How can they deduce human population from global CO2 levels? Humans are far from being the dominant form of biomass, even when accounting for oxygen-breathing b
by blueflow 3y ago
How can they deduce human population from global CO2 levels? Humans are far from being the dominant form of biomass, even when accounting for oxygen-breathing biomass only.
Edit: The real paper says "Reconciling ice core CO2 and land-use change following New World-Old World contact". Journalists doing the journalism thing again.
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoCheers, I wish the OP just linked to the paper instead of the news article which would have included way less cringe worthy summaries and an actual summary worthy of our attention. I've stopped reading science news for exactly that reason.