{"id":58645,"date":"2016-05-02T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58645"},"modified":"2016-05-01T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T14:57:17","slug":"unsettled-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58645","title":{"rendered":"Unsettled Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New article in Nature says<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nclimate3004.epdf?referrer_access_token=2Rq4XwVEtH3uoeHdbvbFa9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OYJHZxvEebXSMq9zMi6Q2vWe61M7QFieokWQcY1PQbxc_WpVEWer9mT-AOy08WXZKGmXye4OmiShlfUKMRQyWQuIWW-KPauQsr3stFqzWZjawMgYQkJgyJLt6rliQTUcn-4VQSU5TtXcE3_14GNCeGiKN2lkIjE8ULVperJZR4MUC50m9vsa74b4rumedjf4d9lRG4tK3SDCyk8zIpPgeufQObWJfLtgtKsb4bQMKBIMjfa_E20yHU0EnMXeeFZ9MAAggjudr5N6liP7dc0nF-&amp;tracking_referrer=www.dailymail.co.uk\"> the Earth is getting greener<\/a>, more plants sucking more CO2 out of the air.<br \/>\nThe article mentions that elevated atmospheric CO2 explains some of the greening but carefully avoids linking CO2 levels to temperature. But if green plants suck CO2 out of the air, then shouldn\u2019t global greening lower atmospheric CO2? And if global warming is caused by CO2, which more plants are now sucking out of the air, shouldn\u2019t that mitigate global warming?<br \/>\nI wonder if the computer models used by climate scientists incorporate enough CO2 reduction due to global greening?<br \/>\nJoe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The models do what they&#8217;re told to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: New article in Nature says the Earth is getting greener, more plants sucking more CO2 out of the air. The article mentions that elevated atmospheric CO2 explains some of the greening but carefully avoids linking CO2 levels to temperature. But if green plants suck CO2 out of the air, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58650,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58645\/revisions\/58650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}