I would love to have this explained to me in accessible, non-condescending terms that my small brain can digest. It looks like this is saying that the earth’s ability to absorb the same percentage of produced Co2 has remained unchanged over the past century and a half. Is this a meaningful number if total Co2 produced has risen significantly? That is, if oceans and plants are consuming 55% of the carbon dioxide produced, and have been for at least the past century and a half, then that either means that the total amount produced is rising due to human activity and though the percentage absorbed is constant, the rising volume means rising total levels. Is this then going to produce anomalies in the models used to predict climate change – anomalies tending toward overstating warming? Looking forward to your comments!
No rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction in past 160 years, new research finds
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